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FILE - In this April 17, 2020, file photo, Abune Mathias, the 6th Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, uses hand sanitizer, to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, during an Orthodox Good Friday service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the country’s Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopia’s actions, saying he believes it's genocide. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

US hosts Ethiopian Orthodox Church head after Tigray warning

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman meets with Sudanese Foreign Minister Maryam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

US envoy in Sudan in a bid to resolve Ethiopia’s dam dispute

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

A displaced Tigrayan boy runs up stairs past graffiti reading &quot;God is better than any thing&quot; at the Hadnet General Secondary School which has become a makeshift home to thousands displaced by the conflict, in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The Tigray conflict has displaced more than 1 million people, the International Organization for Migration reported in April, and the numbers continue to rise. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Ethiopian Orthodox Church patriarch blasts Tigray ‘genocide’

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

A displaced Tigrayan boy runs up stairs past graffiti reading &quot;God is better than any thing&quot; at the Hadnet General Secondary School which has become a makeshift home to thousands displaced by the conflict, in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The Tigray conflict has displaced more than 1 million people, the International Organization for Migration reported in April, and the numbers continue to rise. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

UN releases $65 million to aid Ethiopia, most for Tigray

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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

Displaced Tigrayans queue to receive food at the Hadnet General Secondary School which has become a makeshift home to thousands displaced by the conflict, in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The Tigray conflict has displaced more than 1 million people, the International Organization for Migration reported in April, and the numbers continue to rise. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

In Ethiopia camp, displaced Tigrayans live with hunger, fear

By Associated Press - Associated Press

A destroyed tank is seen by the side of the road south of Humera, in an area of western Tigray annexed by the Amhara region during the ongoing conflict, in Ethiopia, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Ethiopia faces a growing crisis of ethnic nationalism that some fear could tear Africa's second most populous country apart, six months after the government launched a military operation in the Tigray region to capture its fugitive leaders. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Ethiopia ‘at a crossroads’ amid spiraling ethnic conflict

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

A Tigrayan employee of the state-owned Ethiopian Airlines, who said he fled the country after being released on bail, poses for a portrait at an undisclosed location in April 2021. “We need you very badly today,” he recalled federal police saying as they took him from his home without explanation. He said he saw almost 100 high-ranking military officials during his two months in detention ending in January 2021. (AP Photo)

‘Clean out our insides’: Ethiopia detains Tigrayans amid war

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Tigrayan refugee Abraha Kinfe Gebremariam, 40, second left, sits for a photograph with his sons, Micheale, 5, left; Daniel, 11, center; his 19-year-old brother-in-law, Goytom Tsegay, second right, and his 4-month-old twin daughters Aden, right, and Turfu Gebremariam, on his lap, inside their family's shelter in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 23, 2021. A fellow refugee, Mulu Gebrencheal, a mother of five, has become an informal adviser, offering guidance on the babies’ care. Abraha and his sons are quick learners, she said. But she mourns for the twins and the death of their mother. “Even the hug of a mother is very sweet,” she said. “They’ve never had this. They never will.” (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

‘Look after my babies’: In Ethiopia, a Tigray family’s quest

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

UN Security Council: ‘Deep concern’ about Ethiopia’s Tigray

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Farmer Nega Chekole, 30, a Tigrayan refugee from Humera, touches his stitched wound in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 14, 2021. He says he was shot by militias before the war broke out on Nov. 4. The atrocities have been seared into the skin. It's often the only evidence at hand to show the world. Now Tigrayans by the thousands take shelter within sight of the homeland they left behind in northern Ethiopia, some of them told to leave or be killed. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

‘Leave no Tigrayan’: In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

‘All options open’: Egypt warns Ethiopia amid dam deadlock

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Egypt, Sudan say no progress in talks over Ethiopia’s dam

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Tigrayan refugees wait in line to revive food from Muslim Aid at Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Ethiopia says Eritrean troops are pulling out of Tigray

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan resume talks on big dam amid tensions

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Referee collapses, stretchered off in African Cup qualifier

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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

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. An Ethiopian official said on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 that his government opposes calls by Sudan for outside mediators including the United States in the ongoing dispute over its construction of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile River. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Ethiopia rejects outside mediation in Nile River dam dispute

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets Chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan at the Presidential Palace in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, March. 6, 2021. Egypt's presidency says President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi trip was to address an array of issues, including economic and military ties and the two nations’ dispute with Ethiopia over a massive dam Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile. The visit comes amid a rapprochement between the two governments. (Presidency of Sudan via AP)

Sudan’s PM in Cairo to discuss Ethiopia’s Nile dam dispute

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

People displaced by the recent conflict live in crowded conditions at a makeshift camp for the displaced in a derelict building of the Shire campus of Axum University, in Shire, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (International Rescue Committee via AP)

Ethiopia’s leader faces intense pressure to end Tigray war

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press