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Spotlight | Ethiopia
How miner KEFI Gold lobbied Addis Ababa to join Africa Finance Corp

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Eyob Tekalign Tolina, State Minister of Finance, in Addis Ababa, in July 2019.
Eyob Tekalign Tolina, State Minister of Finance, in Addis Ababa, in July 2019. © Petterik Wiggers/Panos-REA

The document to ratify the agreement to join the African financial body had been in limbo for two years, but under pressure from its partners, notably junior mining company KEFI Gold, the Finance Ministry suddenly pushed ahead with it.

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