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Eritrea rejects US ‘blackmail’ after sanctions on army chief

By AFP
August 24, 2021

ADDIS ABABA: Eritrea on Monday angrily rejected US sanctions imposed on its army chief over allegations of widespread rights abuses in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region. "The government of Eritrea rejects, both in letter and spirit, the utterly baseless allegations and blackmail directed against it," the Eritrean foreign ministry said in a statement on Twitter.