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An Ethiopian woman argues with others over the allocation of yellow split peas distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 8, 2021. In war-torn Tigray, it is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved, The Associated Press found. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ** FILE **

Deepening ethnic divisions cloud Ethiopian push for a peace deal

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 file photo, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister's office in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia's leader said in an address before lawmakers Tuesday, March 23, 2021 that atrocities have occurred in Tigray, the country's northern region where fighting persists as government troops hunt down its fugitive leaders. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

Ethiopia’s leader says atrocities reported in Tigray war

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

An elderly woman who fled to the city of Axum in the Tigray region of Ethiopia to seek safety sits with her head bandaged after being wounded during an attack on the city, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. She later died of her wounds. As Ethiopia’s Tigray region slowly resumes telephone service after three months of conflict, witnesses gave The Associated Press a detailed account of what might be its deadliest massacre, at the sacred Ethiopian Orthodox church in Axum. (AP Photo)

‘Horrible’: Witnesses recall massacre in Ethiopian holy city

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Ethiopian Negist Derso, left, raises her fist in the air as she joins others in a march in Denver on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, to protest the ongoing war in Ethiopia. As is the case in Ethiopia, Colorado’s Ethiopian communities don’t agree about the cause of the problems in their home country, particularly over which entity is the aggressor, and they worry about their families and friends who live there. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP)

Colorado’s Ethiopian communities split on political conflict

By SAJA HINDI - Associated Press

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister's office in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. The fugitive leader of Ethiopia's defiant Tigray region on Monday called on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to withdraw troops from the region as he asserted that fighting continues &quot;on every front&quot; two days after Abiy declared victory. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia prime minister, increases attacks on Tigrayans

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

In this image made from UNTV video, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during the U.N. General Assembly's special session to discuss the response to COVID-19 and the best path to recovery from the pandemic, Thursday, Dec. 3,2020, at U.N. headquarters, in New York. (UNTV via AP)

UN chief urges rule of law and rights in Ethiopia’s Tigray

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Tigrayan men who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, listen to a priest deliver a sermon during Sunday Mass, at a church near Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Nov. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

‘Mission accomplished’ claims in Tigray may haunt Ethiopia

By Joshua Meservey

Ethiopian Amhara refugee 8-month pregnant Blaines Alfao Eileen, right, sits with Tigray refugee 25-year-old Lemlem Haylo Rada, holding her one-month old baby who was born on a street as she fled, at Um Rakuba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. Ethiopia's government is again warning residents of the besieged capital of the embattled Tigray region as the clock ticks on a 72-hour ultimatum before a military assault, saying &quot;anything can happen.&quot; (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

With Ethiopia on brink of escalation, diplomacy in doubt

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Ethiopian refugees gather in Qadarif region, easter Sudan, Friday, Nov 20, 2020. Thousands of Ethiopians fled the war in Tigray region into Sudan. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

She fled Ethiopia’s fighting. Now she warns of ‘catastrophe’

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, file photo, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center, arrives for the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ahmed left Ethiopians breathless when he became the prime minister in 2018, introducing a wave of political reforms in the long-repressive country and announcing a shocking peace with enemy Eritrea. Now, Abiy is waging war in the defiant Tigray region. (AP Photo/File)

Peace was swift in Ethiopia under Abiy. War was, too.

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Women prepare traditional Ethiopian coffee at street-side coffee stall in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Tensions over the deadly conflict in Ethiopia are spreading well beyond its cut-off northern Tigray region, as the federal government said some 150 suspected &quot;operatives&quot; accused of seeking to &quot;strike fear and terror&quot; throughout the country had been detained. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

As Ethiopia’s conflict rages, ethnic targeting turns deadly

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, file photo, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center, arrives for the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia's prime minister on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 ordered the military to confront the Tigray regional government after he said it attacked a military base overnight, citing months of &quot;provocation and incitement&quot; and declaring that &quot;the last red line has been crossed.&quot; (AP Photo, File)

Timeline: Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize to brink of civil war

By Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday Oct. 24, 2019 file photo, Jawar Mohammed speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his house in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia's most prominent opposition figure, Jawar Mohammed, and 23 other people have been charged with terrorism-related offenses, telecom fraud and other criminal activities, the attorney general's office announced Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

Ethiopia charges prominent opposition figure with terrorism

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

Building site machines stand on the construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Guba in the North West of Ethiopia, 24 November 2017. The dam is currently being built on the Blue Nile and is going to be the biggest dam in Africa. However, the construction leads to tensions, especially with Egypt that worries about its share in Nile water. Photo by: Gioia Forster/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Steven Mnuchin mediated talks see Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam breakthrough

By Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Ethiopian unrest death toll rises, government urges order

Associated Press

In this Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, file photo, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed meets at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Ahmed on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, file)

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian prime minister, wins Nobel Peace Prize for 2019

By Cara Anna, Elias Meseret and Geir Moulson - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, file photo, a bust of the Nobel Prize founder, Alfred Nobel on display at the Concert Hall during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm. (Henrik Montgomery/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ethiopia’s reformist PM Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel peace prize

By ELIAS MESERET and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 file photo, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, file)

The Latest: UN council to say well done in person to Ahmed

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday July 15, 2018 file photo, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, second left, and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center, hold hands as they wave at the crowds in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Once official rivals, the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea have embraced warmly to the roar of a crowd of thousands at a concert celebrating the end of a long state of war. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

A look at the Ethiopia-Eritrea war whose end brought a Nobel

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrives in Khartoum, Sudan on Friday, June 7, 2019, to try and mediate between the ruling military and the country's protest leaders amid an army crackdown that has killed over 100 people this week. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Abiy Ahmed Ethiopia reforms hampered by coup attempt

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times