Ethiopia Seeks U.S. Clarification on Reports of Planned Aid Cut

The site of the under-construction Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia.

Photographer: Zacharias Abubeker/Bloomberg
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Ethiopia asked the U.S. government to clarify reports it may withhold about $130 million of aid in a bid to pressure the Horn of Africa nation to review its plans to fill a new dam that have affronted its neighbors.