The United States has decided to “de-link” its suspension of millions of dollars of aid to Ethiopia from that country’s dispute with Egypt over a massive hydroelectric dam projec
Nairobi, Kenya - The United States has announced that it has decided to 'release' millions of dollars in aid to Ethiopia from the conflict between that country and Egypt due to large-scale dam construction to produce hydropower.
But the State Department said early Friday that it did not mean $ 272 million in security and development assistance would start flowing immediately and that it was based on recent 'developments' - a benchmark clear of bloody conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia. Planned.
The US State Department said humanitarian aid was still exempt from suspension. I have announced the government of Ethiopia. Avraham Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ethiopians were angry after former president Donald Trump ordered aid to his country last year in a rare example of his direct involvement in Africa. Ethiopia abandoned a US-led attempt to negotiate a conflict with Egypt and cited prejudice, and Trump also caused an uproar by claiming that Egypt would "blow up" the dam project, which Cairo considers an existential threat.
Ethiopia stresses that the $ 4. 6 billion Grand Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, which is nearing completion on the Blue Nile, is essential for the development and exit of millions of people from poverty. Egypt says it threatens its water supplies.
Ethiopia is now under pressure from the United States and others, including the European Union and the United Nations, over bloody fighting in northern Tigray, where nearly 6 million people have been expelled from the world since the fighting in Ethiopia began in November. And the Allied forces.
Evidence of the massacre has been published, people are starving and the presence of thousands of soldiers from Eritrea has been rejected by the Ethiopian government.
The United States has said Eritrean troops should leave Ethiopia "immediately". Earlier this week, a State Department spokesman said: 'We remain deeply concerned about the human suffering and widespread human rights abuses reported in Tigray County. '
The spokesman called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Tigris, full and uninterrupted access to humanitarian aid, an independent inquiry into human rights abuses and the crimes and responsibilities of those responsible. '
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The United States has decided to “de-link” its suspension of millions of dollars of aid to Ethiopia from that country’s dispute with Egypt over a massive hydroelectric dam projec
Nairobi, Kenya - The United States has announced that it has decided to 'release' millions of dollars in aid to Ethiopia from the conflict between that country and Egypt due to large-scale dam construction to produce hydropower.
But the State Department said early Friday that it did not mean $ 272 million in security and development assistance would start flowing immediately and that it was based on recent 'developments' - a benchmark clear of bloody conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia. Planned.
The US State Department said humanitarian aid was still exempt from suspension. I have announced the government of Ethiopia. Avraham Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ethiopians were angry after former president Donald Trump ordered aid to his country last year in a rare example of his direct involvement in Africa. Ethiopia abandoned a US-led attempt to negotiate a conflict with Egypt and cited prejudice, and Trump also caused an uproar by claiming that Egypt would "blow up" the dam project, which Cairo considers an existential threat.
Ethiopia stresses that the $ 4. 6 billion Grand Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, which is nearing completion on the Blue Nile, is essential for the development and exit of millions of people from poverty. Egypt says it threatens its water supplies.
Ethiopia is now under pressure from the United States and others, including the European Union and the United Nations, over bloody fighting in northern Tigray, where nearly 6 million people have been expelled from the world since the fighting in Ethiopia began in November. And the Allied forces.
Evidence of the massacre has been published, people are starving and the presence of thousands of soldiers from Eritrea has been rejected by the Ethiopian government.
The United States has said Eritrean troops should leave Ethiopia "immediately". Earlier this week, a State Department spokesman said: 'We remain deeply concerned about the human suffering and widespread human rights abuses reported in Tigray County. '
The spokesman called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Tigris, full and uninterrupted access to humanitarian aid, an independent inquiry into human rights abuses and the crimes and responsibilities of those responsible. '
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