(Update information is in bold below)
The U.S. Department of State advises that:
The Court in Ethiopia has temporarily stopped accepting cases involving abandoned children from non-governmental orphanages in Addis Ababa.
Currently neither MOWA nor the First Instance Court is accepting any abandonment cases from any non-governmental orphanages in Addis Ababa, pending an inquiry.
Apparently, children from orphanages outside of Addis Ababa are not affected by this suspension.
We will update this advisory as more information is learned about what is happening in Ethiopia.