{"id":466919,"date":"2023-11-16T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=466919"},"modified":"2023-11-16T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:22:45","slug":"afdb-files-complaint-following-arrest-and-assault-of-staff-in-ethiopia-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/466919","title":{"rendered":"AfDB Files Complaint Following Arrest and Assault of Staff in Ethiopia &#8211; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Thursday it has lodged a formal complaint with the Ethiopian authorities after two of its staff members were arrested, assaulted and detained by the country&#8217;s security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it a &#8220;very serious diplomatic incident&#8221;, the AfDB said two staff members on Oct. 31 were &#8220;unlawfully arrested, physically assaulted, and detained for many hours by elements of the security forces without any official explanation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An AfDB statement said the Ethiopian government had extended its support to the bank and has promised a speedy investigation into the incident. The bank&#8217;s operations in the east African country have not been affected by the incident, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Thursday it has lodged a formal complaint with the Ethiopian authorities after two of its staff members were arrested, assaulted and detained by the country&#8217;s security forces. Calling it a &#8220;very serious diplomatic incident&#8221;, the AfDB said two staff members on Oct. 31 were &#8220;unlawfully arrested, physically assaulted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AfDB-says-it-filed-complaint-after-Ethiopia-staff-arrested-assaulted-.jpg?fit=225%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1XsX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466921,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466919\/revisions\/466921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}