US urges nationals again to leave war-torn Ethiopia immediately

CAIRO - 16 November 2021: The US urged its nationals once again to leave war-torn Ethiopia immediately on their own, warning that there will be no Afghanistan-style military evacuation from the country, Al Arabiya channel reported Tuesday.

The US embassy has been calling on US citizens for several days to take commercial flights to leave the country, where rebel groups no longer rule out marching on the capital Addis Ababa.

The embassy offers loans to those who are unable to purchase a ticket immediately.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price said he feared a “misperception” among the public “that what we saw in Afghanistan is something that the US government can undertake anywhere and everywhere in the world.”

In mid-August, when the Taliban captured Kabul before the US military had completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, Washington sent thousands of soldiers back to the capital's airport to improvise an unprecedented evacuation operation.