Ethopia

The European Union (EU) has explained why it resolved to cancel its observer mission for Ethiopia’s June elections citing ‘lack of agreement on key parameters’.

High Representative Josep Borrell said standard requirements like the mission’s independence and importation of communication systems for their security had been denied.

“It is disappointing that the EU has not received the assurances necessary to extend to the Ethiopian people one of its most visible signs of support for their quest for democracy,” he wrote in a statement shared online:

The EU urged …