US President Donald Trump has renewed a national emergency to address the “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States” posed by the security situation in northern Ethiopia.
The emergency, originally declared by the Biden administration in 2021 and renewed yearly, will be in effect until September 2026, according to a notice from the US presidency issued this week.
“The situation in and in relation to northern Ethiopia, which has been marked by activities that threaten the peace, security, and stability of Ethiopia and the greater Horn of Africa region, continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” it reads.
The Biden administration declared the emergency a few months before moving to delist Ethiopia from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for human rights violations committed during the northern war.
