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EU says no aid resumption yet

    NAIROBI

    The European Union (EU) has said it is not ready to resume aid to Zanzibar, citing lack of “significant” change in the political sphere, an EU official told IRIN on Thursday. “The situation has more or less remained the same,” he said. “The issue of the 18 opposition detainees [held for over two years without trial] and the fact that certain recommendations agreed on by an an inter-party meeting have not been fulfilled, are some of the reasons,” he added. The EU suspended aid to protest over the 1995 elections which the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) claimed had been rigged.

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