Abdella

MEMORANDUM **

Sada Mohamed Abdella, a native and citizen of Ethiopia, petitions for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a). We review the BIA’s decision that Petitioner has not established eligibility for asylum under the substantial evidence standard, Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 966 (9th Cir.1998), and reverse only if the evidence compels a contrary conclusion, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition for review.

The record does not compel reversal of the BIA’s conclusion that Abdella failed to establish a well-founded fear of future persecution because Abdella was unable to show that her brother was killed by Tigray officials, or that she herself was targeted for persecution. See Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1094-95 (9th Cir.2002). Furthermore, political changes in Ethiopia since Abdella left in 1992 suggest that she does not have a well-founded fear of…