The proposal to enlarge Ruaha National Park has faced allegations of misconduct, prompting the bank to withhold the remaining $50 million of its $150 million budget.
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The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action.