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A batch of electrical vehicles for sale parked at a car yard in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo)

Ethiopia bans imports of gas-powered private vehicles, but the switch to electric is a bumpy ride

By Samuel Getachew - Associated Press

FILE -A man sells chickens in Sholla Market, the day before the Ethiopian New Year, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sept. 10, 2022. (AP Photo), File)

Price instability rocks Ethiopia as it reels from foreign exchange rate reforms

By Samuel Getachew - Associated Press

In this Saturday, June 19, 2021, file photo, police march during a parade to display new police uniforms and instruct them to maintain impartiality and respect the law during the general election, in Meskel Square in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Witnesses say thousands of Tigrayans are being detained by police and their businesses closed in a new wave of ethnic targeting by Ethiopian authorities over the eight-month conflict in the Tigray region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

‘Purely ethnic profiling’: New wave of Tigrayans detained

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Farmer Teklemariam Gebremichael, 40, who said he was shot by Eritrean forces in Enticho six months ago and is still recovering, speaks to a doctor, left, at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. For months, both Ethiopia and Eritrea denied the presence of Eritrean soldiers in Tigray but Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed later acknowledged in March that Eritrean troops were “causing damages to our people.” (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Election could prove last chance for Ethiopia’s falling star

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman, left, meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

US envoy in Egypt for talks on Ethiopia’s dam dispute

By SAMY MAGDY - 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

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

‘Several’ killed in Ethiopia unrest after singer shot dead

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2015 file photo, Sayed Ahmed Abdoh poles his boat to check his fish traps in the Nile River, near Abu al-Nasr village, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo, in Egypt. Egypt and Sudan said talks over a controversial massive Nile dam would be resumed Monday, June 15, 2020, amid Egyptian accusations that Ethiopia has sought to scrap “all agreements and deals” they had previously reached, and that “many fundamental issues” remain rejected by Ethiopia, the third party to the project. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Egypt: Ethiopia rejecting ‘fundamental issues’ on Nile dam

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, Ruth Kageche, whose brother Rev. George Mukua Kageche, a priest based in Italy, perished on the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 in 2019, holds a portrait him during an interview with The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya. The year since the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max has been a journey through grief, anger and determination for the families of those who died, as well as having far-reaching consequences for the aeronautics industry as it brought about the grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets, which remain out of service. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Grief, controversy mark anniversary of Ethiopian plane crash

By ELIAS MESERET and DAVID KOENIG and GEOFFREY KAVITI - 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

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

In this image made from video, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announces a failed coup as he addresses the public on television, Sunday, June 23, 2019. The failed coup in the Amhara region was led by a high-ranking military official and others within the country’s military, the prime minister told the state broadcaster. (ETV via AP)

Ethiopia says military chief killed, regional coup failed

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump walks past an airplane as she leaves an airport lounge before boarding a commercial flight from Dulles International Airport, in Sterling, Va., Saturday April 13, 2019, en route to Ethiopia. Trump will travel to Ethiopia and Ivory Coast to promote a global economical program for women. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ivanka Trump promotes women’s empowerment in Ethiopia

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

This photo provided by by the French air accident investigation authority BEA on Thursday, March 14, 2019, shows one of the black box flight recorder from the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet, in le Bourget, north of Paris. The French air accident investigation agency has released a photo of the data recorder from the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet. The agency, known by its French acronym BEA, received the flight's data recorder and voice recorder Thursday. (BEA via AP)

Black box from Ethiopia crash similar to Indonesia, official says

By Elias Meseret - Associated Press

Airplane parts lie on the ground at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, March 11, 2019. A spokesman says Ethiopian Airlines has grounded all its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft as a safety precaution, following the crash of one of its planes in which 157 people were killed. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

The Latest: US aviation team arrives at Ethiopia crash site

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In this image taken from video, rescuers search through wreckage at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Sunday, March 10, 2019. The Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board, authorities said, as grieving families rushed to airports in Addis Ababa and the destination, Nairobi. (AP Photo/Yidnek Kirubel)

Airlines ground Boeing jet after plane crashes in Ethiopia

By ELIAS MESERET and YIDNEK KIRUBEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2010, file photo, Bole International airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Airlines flight with 157 people thought to be on board crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday, March 10, 2019 from Ethiopia's capital headed to Nairobi, the airline said. (AP Photo/Samson Haileyesus-file)

Correction: Ethiopia-Plane Crash story

By ELIAS MESERET and YIDNEK KIRUBEL - Associated Press

Family members arrive at Bole International airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday, March 10, 2019, to check on information on the Ethiopian flight that crashed. An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 people thought to be on board, the airline and state broadcaster said. (AP Photo/Elias Masseret)

Correction: Ethiopia-Plane-Crash-The Latest story

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Anger in Ethiopia as officials demolish hundreds of houses

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press