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Source: ICIJ<\/p>\n

March 21, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

Sasha Chavkin<\/p>\n

A $600 million World Bank loan to Ethiopia\u2019s authoritarian government lacks proper oversight and \u201creinvents\u201d a previous loan that was used by the Ethiopian regime to finance violent evictions of indigenous people, a new report<\/a> by the human rights advocacy group The Oakland Institute charges.<\/p>\n

The report also contends that the U.S. Treasury Department violated orders from Congress to oppose any development project in Ethiopia that contributes to forced evictions. The Treasury Department\u2019s representative on the World Bank\u2019s governing board voted in favor of the new project, despite its similarity to the last one, the report says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty much a mirror image of the old program,\u201d said Anuradha Mittal, the executive director of the Oakland Institute.<\/p>\n

The World Bank declined to answer detailed questions about its recent loan, but referred ICIJ to project documents that describe new conditions for citizen engagement and financial oversight that are linked to disbursement of the money. The U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank and a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department did not respond to ICIJ\u2019s email and telephone inquiries.<\/p>\n

The World Bank\u2019s loan comes in the midst of a crackdown on dissent by Ethiopia\u2019s federal government. Activists are being jailed and dozens of people have been killed by federal forces firing live ammunition<\/a> into protests, according to Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n

Felix Horne, an Ethiopia researcher for Human Rights Watch,\u00a0cited the case of Omot Agwa, a former translator for the World Bank who was charged under Ethiopia\u2019s infamous Anti-Terrorism Law<\/a> after helping the bank\u2019s investigators probe allegations of forced evictions of indigenous people linked to a previous project. Agwa has been in prison for a year while the World Bank has declined to speak out publicly on his arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Ethiopia there is zero space to express dissent,\u201d Horne said. \u201cAnyone who is brave enough to do that at the low end ends up being harassed, and at the high end is charged under the Anti-Terrorism Law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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