The African Development Bank announced on Wednesday that it’s pulling all of its international staff from Ethiopia immediately over a “serious diplomatic incident.”
The Côte d'Ivoire-based bank has a $1.24 billion portfolio in Ethiopia, and bank President Akinwumi Adesina warned that “its continued operations and future presence in the country could be negatively affected if the incident is not fully resolved.”
At the end of October, Ethiopian security forces “unlawfully arrested, physically assaulted, and detained for hours without charge or any official explanation” two of its Addis Ababa-based staff members, the bank said.
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Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
