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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

Egypt water anxiety grows over Ethiopia dam on Nile

By Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

Ethiopia Jews protest Israeli government’s emigration delays

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

Thousands of protestors from the capital and those displaced by ethnic-based violence over the weekend in Burayu, demonstrate to demand justice from the government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Several thousand Ethiopians have gone out onto the streets of the capital to protest ethnic-based attacks in the outskirts of the city in which more than 20 people died over the weekend. Banner in Amharic reads &quot;The government should stop the attacks against our people.&quot; (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Ethiopia’s stunning reforms now challenged by deadly unrest

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

Deadly ethnic-based attacks erupt near Ethiopia’s capital

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, right, is greeted by Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, left, as he arrives at the office of Ethiopia's Prime Minister for a meeting with South Sudan's opposition leader Riek Machar, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. South Sudan's warring leaders met face-to-face for the first time in almost two years on Wednesday amid efforts to end a five-year civil war. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Abiy Ahmed Ali revives Ethiopia with reforms, Eritrea outreach

By Connor Foarde - The Washington Times

Africa’s leaders choose diplomacy to Trump’s toilet remarks

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

In this photo of Saturday, Sept.24, 2016, locomotives for the new Ethiopia to Djibouti electric railway system queue outside a train station in the outskirts of Addis Ababa. One of Africa's best-performing economies on Wednesday launched its latest massive infrastructure project, a railway linking the landlocked country with a major port on the Gulf of Aden. But it came just days after dozens were killed in anti-government protests in the region the railway runs through. (AP Photo/Elias Meseret)

Ethiopia’s new coastal rail link runs through restive region

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

Ethiopia inaugurated the country's — and sub-Saharan Africa's — first light rail system September 20, constructed by the China Railway Group (CREC). (Associated Press)

Ethiopia rail system reflects growing ties with China

By Tonny Onyulo — Special to The Washington Times

President Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to visit Ethiopia, said during a news conference with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Monday that Republican presidential candidates are attempting to distort the facts of his Iran nuclear deal. (Associated Press)

Obama decries GOP for distorting facts of Iran deal

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

US urges fast African troops response in S. Sudan

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press