{"id":222105,"date":"2018-06-15T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=222105"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:13:53","slug":"colonial-treaties-in-the-context-of-the-current-ethio-eritrean-border-dispute-and-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/222105","title":{"rendered":"Colonial treaties in the context of the current Ethio-Eritrean border dispute and settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dr Haile Mariam Larebo<\/p>\n

The sudden decision by Ethiopia\u2019s regime to accept, after years of refusal, and to implement the outcome of the Algiers Treaty as arbitrated by the Hague Court without any preconditions, has inflamed the nation, sparking demonstration, and even violence, by those directly affected by the ruling party\u2019s abrupt action. The Hague Court\u2019s ruling has been declared \u201cnull and void\u201d by many, not only well-meaning and patriotic Ethiopians but also, and most significantly, by the respectable scholarly community, versed in colonial history. This article, which is a reproduction of a paper originally presented to the Fourteenth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, held in Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa[1], looks from historical perspective at the colonial treaties and the charters of the Organization of the African Unity, twin elements underpinning the Hague\u2019s court ruling. Read the full text here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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By Dr Haile Mariam Larebo The sudden decision by Ethiopia\u2019s regime to accept, after years of refusal, and to implement the outcome of the Algiers Treaty as arbitrated by the Hague Court without any preconditions, has inflamed the nation, sparking demonstration, and even violence, by those directly affected by the ruling party\u2019s abrupt action. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222152,"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-222105","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\/06\/Ethiopian-historic-map.gif?fit=1014%2C1208&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-VMl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222105","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=222105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222153,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222105\/revisions\/222153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}