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The United States government has today announced $331 million in new humanitarian assistance for Ethiopia in 2023.

Ethiopian to Resume its Direct Flights Between Abidjan & New York

February 23, 2023April 2, 2023

Ethiopian Airlines has announced the resumption of its direct flights between Abidjan and New York as of 29 May 2023.

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Abiy, Blinken Discuss Peace Deal Implementation

November 23, 2022November 24, 2022

ADDIS ABABA – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed held talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the implementation of the peace deal in northern Ethiopia, according to the state department.

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US Special Envoy, IGAD Official Discuss ‘Concerns Affecting’ East Africa

August 16, 2021August 18, 2021

ADDIS ABABA – U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman has begun his tour to the region in Djibouti where he held talks with the Executive Secretary of the regional bloc, Igad,

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AU Condemns U.S. Police Killing of African American

May 29, 2020May 30, 2020

ADDIS ABEBA – Chairperson of the African Union Commission has condemned the killing of an unarmed black man by Police in the US state of Minnesota.

In this Tuesday Feb. 18, 2020, photo, Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service troops exercise under the supervision of British special forces during U.S. military-led annual counterterrorism exercise in Thies, Senegal. More than 1,500 service members from the armies of 34 African and partner training nations have assembled for the Flintlock exercises in Senegal and Mauritania, the two countries in West Africa's sprawling Sahel region that so far have not been hit by violence from extremists linked to al-Qaida or the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Cheikh A.T Sy)

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COVID-19 Forces U.S. to Cancel its Major Military Exercise in Africa

March 17, 2020

ADDIS ABABA – One of the U.S. military’s largest exercises in Africa, Exercise African Lion 2020, has been canceled due to the threat of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Swarms of desert locusts fly up into the air from crops in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions from Somalia and Ethiopia, countries that haven't seen such numbers in a quarter-century, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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U.S. Provides Additional $10mln for Locust Control in East Africa

March 6, 2020

ADDIS ABEBA – The United States is providing an additional $10 million in humanitarian assistance to support regional operations to control locusts in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, its aid agency, USAID, announced today.

Ethiopia says U.S. Being ‘Undiplomatic’ over Renaissance Dam Project

March 4, 2020March 7, 2020

ADDIS ABABA – The United States has been “undiplomatic” in its role facilitating talks between three countries on the Nile River over a giant dam, Ethiopia said on Tuesday, but promised to continue negotiations.