"Another stringer fled Ethiopia because she was being repeatedly harassed, even after she stopped working for the service."

(They fled Ethiopia after war broke out there, too.)

Thousands of Beta Israel had fled Ethiopia on foot for refugee camps in Sudan, a journey which usually took anywhere from two weeks to a month.

Meanwhile, Emperor Haile Selassie had fled Ethiopia (some Ethiopians never forgave him for it) to present Ethiopia's cause to the world.

He is quick to smile, but tears appear in his eyes when he recalls the moment he decided to flee Ethiopia.

In 2010 the staffers at Addis Neger shut down the newspaper and Negash fled Ethiopia, leaving his mother and wife behind.

But in 1993, the Patriarch of the mother church fled Ethiopia, fearing imprisonment by the new Government.

Fleeing Ethiopia, she became embroiled in the country's war with Somalia, being imprisoned in a labor camp for close to a decade.

He declined, and fled Ethiopia for Saudi Arabia.

Haile's family fled Ethiopia during the coup in the mid-'70s, after soldiers arrested and nearly killed her historian father.