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EU budget aid to Sierra Leone reportedly suspended amid conflicting explanations
A journalist writing for OCCRP says the Dutch justice minister linked the freeze to harboring an alleged cocaine kingpin.
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A journalist writing for OCCRP says the EU froze Sierra Leone’s budget aid. The Dutch justice minister said the freeze was for harboring an alleged cocaine kingpin; Freetown denied it, while the EU said the funding was suspended over a technicality.
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