Tanzania loses Denmark aid over rights concerns after World Bank scraps loan


  • World
  • Thursday, 15 Nov 2018

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Tanzania's second-biggest donor Denmark said it would withhold $10 million worth of aid money, citing concerns over human rights abuses and "unacceptable homophobic comments" made by a government official.

The decision came on the same day that the World Bank said it had scrapped a plan to loan Tanzania $300 million after the country reaffirmed its policy of banning pregnant girls from school and recently made it a crime to question official statistics.

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