Ethiopia
As US exits, Ethiopia's transitional justice effort faces donor doubts

A bus carrying civilians passes a destroyed tank outside Mekele in Ethiopia's Tigray region, in June 2021.
A bus carrying civilians passes a destroyed tank outside Mekele in Ethiopia's Tigray region, in June 2021. © Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times via REA
Washington's freeze on foreign aid has left Addis Ababa's transitional justice programme without its main backer. European donors, sceptical of political will, are now hesitating too. [...]
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