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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 handout photo released by Gofa Zone Government Communication Affairs Department, a woman cries as hundreds of people gather at the site of a mudslide in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, Gofa Zone, southern Ethiopia, Monday, July 22, 2024. At least 146 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, according to local authorities. (Isayas Churga/Gofa Zone Government Communication Affairs Department via AP)

Search for people missing after Ethiopia mudslides continues as death toll rises to 257

By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by Gofa Zone Government Communication Affairs Department, a woman cries as hundreds of people gather at the site of a mudslide in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, Gofa Zone, southern Ethiopia, Monday, July 22, 2024. At least 146 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, according to local authorities. (Isayas Churga/Gofa Zone Government Communication Affairs Department via AP)

Death toll in southern Ethiopia mudslides rises to at least 157 as search operations continue

By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane - Associated Press

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia signage seen outside a branch in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tuesday, March. 26, 2024. Ethiopia's biggest bank says it has recouped nearly 80% of the cash it lost during a "system glitch" that allowed customers to take out more money than they had in their accounts. (AP Photo/Amir Aman Kiyaro)

Ethiopia’s biggest bank says it has recouped most of the cash lost during a system glitch

Associated Press

$FILE - An Ethiopian woman argues with others over the allocation of yellow split peas after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. Only a small fraction of needy people in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region are receiving food aid, according to an aid memo seen by The Associated Press, more than one month after aid agencies resumed deliveries of grain following a lengthy pause over theft. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)$

Millions urgently need food in Ethiopia’s Tigray region despite the resumption of aid deliveries

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

FILE - An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. The United States Agency for International Development will restart food aid deliveries across Ethiopia in December, five months after it halted its nationwide program over a massive corruption scheme by local officials (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

US will resume food aid to millions across Ethiopia after monthslong pause over massive corruption

Associated Press

An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. A study by local health authorities and Mekele University in the regional capital found that hunger is now the main cause of death in Tigray, accounting for more than 68% of deaths investigated by the researchers. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) **FILE**

Ethiopia says disputed western Tigray will be settled in a referendum and displaced people returned

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FILE - Steven Ratner, left, Expert, Kaari Betty Murungi, center, Chair of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, and Radhika Coomaraswamy, Expert, right, speak about the presentation of the first report of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, on Sept. 22, 2022. A U.N.-backed probe of human rights abuses in Ethiopia is set to expire after no country stepped forward to seek an extension, despite repeated warnings that serious violations continue almost a year after a cease-fire ended a bloody civil war in the East African country. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

U.N.-backed probe into Ethiopia’s abuses is set to end. No one has asked for it to continue

By Jamey Keaten and Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. A study by local health authorities and Mekele University in the regional capital found that hunger is now the main cause of death in Tigray, accounting for more than 68% of deaths investigated by the researchers. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) **FILE**

Researchers have verified 1,329 hunger deaths in Ethiopia’s Tigray region since the cease-fire there

Associated Press

FILE - Construction work takes place, at the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethiopia on June 28, 2013. Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan resumed their years-long negotiations Sunday Aug. 27, 2023 over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River’s main tributary, officials said. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare, File)

Latest talks between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt over mega dam on the Nile end without breakthrough

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The Department of Justice seal is seen in Washington, Nov. 28, 2018. The Justice Department says a contractor for the U.S. government who is originally from Ethiopia has been arrested on espionage charges, accused of providing a foreign country classified information that he downloaded and printed from his work computer system. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

State Department IT contractor charged with spying for Ethiopia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A Tigrayan refugee rape victim who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray sits for a portrait in eastern Sudan near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, March 20, 2021. U.N.-backed human rights experts say that war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace deal signed nearly a year ago to end a devastating conflict that also engulfed the country's Tigray region. The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence — mostly women and girls. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

UN experts say Ethiopia’s conflict and Tigray fighting left over 10,000 survivors of sexual violence

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

An unidentified armed militia fighter walks down a path as villagers flee with their belongings in the other direction, near the village of Chenna Teklehaymanot, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Ethiopia's government and residents say the military has recaptured several areas in the embattled Amhara region from local militia fighters, while details of dozens of civilians killed have begun to emerge from the region amid an internet shutdown. The military has reclaimed control of six towns including the regional capital of Bahir Dar and the region's second-largest town, Gondar, according to a government statement on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. It said curfew has been imposed in those areas and flights there are set to resume. (AP Photo, File)

The U.N. says at least 183 people have been killed in Ethiopia over Amhara region unrest since July

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

From left, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China's President Xi Jinping, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS group photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. (Gianluigi Guercia/Pool via AP)

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 6 nations set to join China and Russia in BRICS economic bloc

By Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, left, accompanied by House speaker Tagesse Chafo, right, addresses the parliament in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Nov. 15, 2022. Authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out mass arrests of hundreds, even thousands, of people in the capital after deadly unrest in the country’s Amhara region, lawyers and witnesses said. Ethiopia’s parliament is to vote Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, on giving formal approval to extraordinary measures which allow authorities to arrest suspects without a warrant, conduct searches and impose curfews. (AP Photo/File)

Lawyers and witnesses say Ethiopian police have arrested hundreds during state of emergency

By Cara Anna - Associated Press