ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The European Investment Bank is set to lend Ethiopia $200 million to build two industry parks that will employ 30,000 refugees in a move aimed at curbing migration to Europe, the bank said on Wednesday.
The Horn of Africa country hosts more than 743,000 refugees and asylum seekers from neighboring countries, many of whom use its camps as way stations on a longer journey to Europe.
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