Ethiopia’s controversial quest for the sea

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Ethiopia is famously landlocked. That’s why the ambitious Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed has long harbored visions of reaching the sea.
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Sudan’s warring sides forcibly recruit civilians, even refugees who return

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Sudanese refugees fleeing the conflict have found conditions so bad in neighboring Ethiopia that some have returned home and been forced to join the fight.
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Raped during Ethiopia’s war, survivors now rejected by their families

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More than 100,000 women may have been raped during the two-year civil war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, according to the most comprehensive study.
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U.S. resumes assistance to Ethiopia after intense negotiations over corruption in aid program

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The Ethiopian government will draw up the lists of the needy “jointly” with aid groups and community members.
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State and Justice Dept. contractor charged with spying for Ethiopia

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A Maryland man of Ethiopian descent, Abraham Teklu Lemma, is accused of passing on classified national defense information about a region where soldiers battled rebels
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Long after Ethiopia truce, sexual assaults by soldiers continue, says report

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An analysis of medical records in Tigray showed sexual violence perpetrated by soldiers continued long after the November truce was signed.
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Six countries to join BRICS group; China labels expansion ‘historic’

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Six countries — Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — will join the the group in January as Russia and China try to counter the west.
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