US President Joe Biden announced the extension of the state of emergency in the country for another year amid the situation in Ethiopia.

“On September 17, 2022, I declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in northern Ethiopia,” Biden said in a letter to Congress and posted on the White House website.

He underlined that “the situation in and over northern Ethiopia is characterized by activities that threaten peace, security and stability in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa”, pointing to “widespread violence, atrocities and gross violations of human rights, including include ethnic violence, rape and other forms of gender-based violence, and obstruction of humanitarian operations.”

Biden emphasized that “these actions continue to pose an unusual and exceptional threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and as such, the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14046 must remain in effect beyond September 17, 2022, and therefore , I am renewing the status for one year.” As a result, a state of emergency has been declared for Ethiopia.

It is noteworthy that the state of emergency in the United States was declared three days after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and by law, the state of emergency is automatically lifted if the head of state does not publish within 90 days after each anniversary of the events of September 11 a message on the need for its renewal in the Federal Register The US Reserve System did not notify Congress of this.”