ETHIOPIA'S PRESIDENT ATSKE-SELASSIE AMDE SAYS 'OUR MESSAGE TO FORCES OF DESTRUCTION AND MAYHEM IS LOUD AND CLEAR', URGING THEM 'TO RESPECT THE SACRED RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE HORN OF AFRICA TO LIVE IN PEACE'.

ETHIOPIA'S PRESIDENT ATSKE-SELASSIE AMDE SAYS AT THE UNITED NATIONS THAT ETHIOPIA HAS ACHIEVED NOTABLE PROGRESS WITH SEVERAL NEIGHBORS 'IN SPITE OF RECKLESS EXTERNAL ACTORS', ADDING THAT 'DESPITE CONTINUED INTERFERENCE IN OUR INTERNAL AFFAIRS BY ADVERSARIAL ELEMENTS, WE HAVE EXERCISED IMMENSE RESTRAINT'.

At least two people have died and more than a dozen may be missing or unaccounted for after flash floods swept through Grand Canyon National Park, according to the National Park Service