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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks to the media with Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom on the occasion of an informal meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers, in Marsta, outside Stockholm, on Saturday, May 13, 2023. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

Ukraine foreign minister urges African nations to ditch neutrality in Russia war

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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

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, meets Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (Tiksa Negeri/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken in Ethiopia as country recovers from Tigray conflict

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This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies claims to show unidentified military forces mobilized in the town of Sheraro, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. New satellite imagery shows military mobilization in Sheraro, which a humanitarian worker this month described to the AP as being targeted by deadly shelling that caused tens of thousands of people to flee. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Ethiopia, Tigray head invited to peace talks in South Africa

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

FILE - Ethiopian government soldiers ride in the back of a truck on a road near Agula, north of Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. Authorities in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region alleged Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 that Ethiopia's military launched a &quot;large-scale&quot; offensive for the first time in a year, while Ethiopia's military spokesman did not immediately respond to questions. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

‘Large-scale’ fighting shatters lull in Ethiopia’s Tigray

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Dec. 8, 2008. The al-Shabab extremist group has exploited Ethiopia's internal turmoil to cross the border from neighboring Somalia in unprecedented attacks in July 2022 that a top U.S. military commander has warned could continue. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

In a first, Somalia-based al-Shabab is attacking in Ethiopia

By Omar Faruk - Associated Press

An Ethiopian woman argues with others over the allocation of yellow split peas distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 8, 2021. In war-torn Tigray, it is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved, The Associated Press found. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ** FILE **

Deepening ethnic divisions cloud Ethiopian push for a peace deal

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - 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. United States envoy Jeffrey Feltman said Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021 that he sees "nascent progress" in talks with Ethiopia's warring sides, but he fears it will be outpaced by "alarming" military developments in the yearlong war in Africa's second-most populous country. (AP Photo, File)

Ethiopia expels Irish diplomats over Ireland’s stance on war

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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

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. At the scene of one of the deadliest battles of Ethiopia's 10-month Tigray conflict, witness accounts reflected the blurring line between combatant and civilian after the federal government urged all capable citizens to stop Tigray forces &quot;once and for all.&quot; (AP Photo)

Biden signs order authorizing Ethiopian sanctions as humanitarian crisis worsens

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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

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Armed police, seen through vehicle exhaust fumes, provide security for electoral materials as they are transported from a polling station in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tuesday, June 22, 2021, a day after the country voted in a general election. Ethiopia voted Monday in the greatest electoral test yet for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as insecurity and logistical issues meant ballots wouldn't be cast in more than 100 constituencies of the 547 across the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Witnesses say airstrike in Ethiopia’s Tigray kills dozens

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Ethiopians cast their votes in the general election at a polling center in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, June 21, 2021. Ethiopia was voting Monday in the greatest electoral test yet for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as insecurity and logistical issues meant ballots wouldn't be cast in more than 100 constituencies of the 547 across the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Ethiopia votes in greatest electoral test yet for PM Abiy

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