EU postpones $109 million aid to Ethiopia over Tigray access
by Andrew Meldrum, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 16, 2020 1:28 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 1:44 pm EDT
People who fled the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, walk in Umm Rakouba refugee camp, in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
JOHANNESBURG The European Union has postponed 90 million euros ($109 million) in budgetary support to Ethiopia over lack of access to the country’s Tigray region to deliver humanitarian aid amid the conflict.
The delay in the funding, which was supposed to be paid at the end of the year, was confirmed to The Associated Press Wednesday by a top EU diplomat in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.
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