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[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The U.S. State Department's newly released 2024 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Ethiopia reads like a haunting déjà vu. For the fifth consecutive year, Washington has cataloged the same grim realities: extrajudicial killings, mass displacement, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence as a weapon of war, and the suffocation of civic space. The details shift with each annual publication, but the narrative arc remains the same. Ethiopia's crisis has not been cyclical--it has
