Ethiopia flexes economic muscles in Tigray region
The attorney-general’s office says it has frozen the bank accounts of 34 units of the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray
18 November 2020 - 17:08
Ethiopia’s government ratcheted up economic pressure on the rebel Tigray state in a bid to cow it into submission after two weeks of fighting that’s triggered a humanitarian crisis in Africa’s second-most populous nation.
The attorney-general’s office said it had frozen the bank accounts of 34 subsidiaries of the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (Effort), which is administered by the region’s ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front...
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