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

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

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

FILE - 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

A worker walks next to a pile of sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Semera, Ethiopia, Feb. 21, 2022. The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. joins U.N. in suspending food aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press

Terraced hills are seen off the road between Gondar and Danshe, a town in an area of western Tigray then annexed by the Amhara region during the ongoing conflict, in Ethiopia on May 1, 2021. Forces from Amhara have displaced tens of thousands of ethnic Tigrayans from disputed territory in the north of the country in recent weeks, despite a peace deal agreed late last year, according to aid workers and internal agency documents seen by the AP in April 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

United Nations, others cite new displacement from Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press

Ethiopians protest against what they say is interference by outsiders in the country's internal affairs and against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the party of Tigray's fugitive leaders, at a rally organized by the city administration in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. The demonstrations were staged ahead of the expected start of peace talks in South Africa next week between the warring parties, with the U.S. saying Friday it supports the African Union's efforts to mediate talks to stop fighting in Tigray. Writing in Amharic on placard reads &quot;You suffer in the hands of the enemy for me.&quot; (AP Photo)

Ethiopians protest against outsiders amid Tigray conflict

Associated Press

Ethiopian military parade with national flags attached to their rifles at a rally organized by local authorities to show support for the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), at Meskel square in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. The Ethiopian federal army and its allies have made strong advances in recent weeks, recapturing major towns and cities in the neighboring Amhara and Afar regions that Tigray fighters had seized earlier this year. The Tigray forces have been forced to retreat back to their home region. (AP Photo, File)

Ethiopia says its army will not advance further into Tigray

Associated Press

FILE - People sit on steps next to a sculpture in the shape of Amharic words reading "Addis Ababa" in the Piazza old town area of the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. American and British citizens have been swept up in Ethiopia's mass detentions of ethnic Tigrayans under a new state of emergency in the country's escalating war. Thousands of Tigrayans have already been detained and fears of more such detentions soared on Thursday, Nov. 11 as Ethiopian authorities ordered landlords to register the identities of their tenants with police. (AP Photo, File)

Ethiopia’s detentions of Tigrayans snare US, UK citizens

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Displaced Ethiopians from different towns in the Amhara region wait for aid distributions at a center for the internally-displaced in Debark, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. As they bring war to other parts of Ethiopia such as the Amhara region, resurgent Tigray fighters face growing allegations that they are retaliating for the abuses their people suffered back home, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing in the past two months. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

‘We came here crying’: Tigray forces also accused of abuses

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

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

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

Aid group reports killings by Ethiopian troops in Tigray

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

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

Group reports health facilities looted in Ethiopia’s Tigray

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Ethiopia denies ‘ethnic cleansing,’ is open to outside probe

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press