File photo of workers at Maranque Plants, an Ethiopia-based, Dutch flower farm located near Sodore, Arsi, in the Oromia Region, 2016.
In the past year, several European flower businesses have witnessed their farms being looted and burned amid little protection from the state, compelling many to suspend their operations in Ethiopia’s volatile northern region of Amhara. Netherlands Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot was in Addis Ababa this month to highlight growing concerns from Dutch farmers operating in Ethiopia whose dwindling business activities have been linked to recurring civil strife.Le Pen and torture in Algeria: Individual crime or historical crime
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