Ethiopian security agencies on October 31, 2023 arrested, assaulted and detained for four hours two employees of the multilateral organization, the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Addis Ababa. The employees were working in the East African country as diplomats. Following the incident, the AfDB has decided to withdraw all its international staff from Ethiopia. “This is a very serious diplomatic incident, and the African Development Bank has since lodged a formal complaint with the Ethiopian authorities. These decisions follow the recent breach of diplomatic protocol and assault by Ethiopian security forces on two of the African Development Bank’s international members of staff,” the Bank said in a statement this week.

Source: Ethiopian News December 21, 2023 15:03 UTC