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State Dept. to Update Defense Trade Policies Toward Ethiopia

The State Department plans to revise its defense trade policies, due to concerns about the ongoing crisis and human rights violations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the agency said May 23. While the State Department has already “imposed wide-ranging restrictions on…

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economic and security assistance to Ethiopia,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the agency will also “bring our defense trade control policy in line with” those restrictions. Blinken also announced visa restrictions against current and former Ethiopian government and military officials.