{"id":219638,"date":"2018-04-30T13:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=219638"},"modified":"2019-02-10T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:37:32","slug":"why-i-resigned-as-ethiopian-prime-minister-hailemariam-desalegn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/219638","title":{"rendered":"Why I resigned as Ethiopian Prime Minister \u2013 Hailemariam Desalegn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ethiopian PM Hailemariam Desalegn, who was in Kigali, Rwanda, last week to participate in Mo Ibrahim 2018 Governance Weekend told <em>The New Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219639\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Hailemariam-Desalegn-at-the-2018-Mo-Ibrahim-Governance-Weekend.png?resize=780%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Hailemariam-Desalegn-at-the-2018-Mo-Ibrahim-Governance-Weekend.png?w=997&amp;ssl=1 997w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Hailemariam-Desalegn-at-the-2018-Mo-Ibrahim-Governance-Weekend.png?resize=800%2C489&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Hailemariam-Desalegn-at-the-2018-Mo-Ibrahim-Governance-Weekend.png?resize=768%2C469&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have a problem of addressing multi-ethnic society, a problem of attitude among other issues, there is a need for deep reforms. So I said, I have to set aside myself in order to achieve these deep reforms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The main problem in African politics is people stick to power. And I wanted to show that it is possible that you can leave while having power as a citizen in my country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We haven\u2019t properly made our youth included into the system. And my government admittedly can say we do not understand the vision and the quest of our young people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/africa\/why-i-resigned-ethiopian-prime-minister-hailemariam\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ethiopian PM Hailemariam Desalegn, who was in Kigali, Rwanda, last week to participate in Mo Ibrahim 2018 Governance Weekend told The New Times: We have a problem of addressing multi-ethnic society, a problem of attitude among other issues, there is a need for deep reforms. So I said, I have to set aside myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Hailemariam-Desalegn-at-the-2018-Mo-Ibrahim-Governance-Weekend.png?fit=997%2C609&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-V8y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219640,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219638\/revisions\/219640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}