U.S. to Restrict Economic Aid to Ethiopia Over Tigray War
- Visas for officials from Ethiopia, Eritrea to be curbed
- Ethiopia is the largest recipient of U.S. aid in Africa
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The U.S. imposed “wide-ranging” economic sanctions against Ethiopia to push the African nation led by a Nobel laureate to end violence in Tigray that has killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.
Visas to government and military officials from Ethiopia and its neighbor Eritrea, which is also involved in the violence in Tigray, will be restricted, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. The action sets back relations between two longtime allies in the fight against Islamist extremism in the Horn of Africa.