{"id":248062,"date":"2018-11-03T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T12:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=248062"},"modified":"2019-02-09T04:14:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:14:28","slug":"sidama-zone-in-southern-ethiopia-is-approved-to-become-a-regional-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/248062","title":{"rendered":"Sidama Zone in southern Ethiopia is approved to become a regional state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Ethiopian Region yesterday has approved its Sidama Zone to become a regional state, further cementing the ethnic- and language-based administrative structure in Ethiopia that is currently causing inter-communal clashes in several parts of the country. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNNPR.jpg?resize=780%2C492&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"492\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-248063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNNPR.jpg?w=1184&amp;ssl=1 1184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNNPR.jpg?resize=800%2C505&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNNPR.jpg?resize=768%2C485&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNNPR.jpg?resize=1024%2C646&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNNPR.jpg?resize=640%2C404&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DW Amharic reports:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PX_JbeuBuSE  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Ethiopian Region yesterday has approved its Sidama Zone to become a regional state, further cementing the ethnic- and language-based administrative structure in Ethiopia that is currently causing inter-communal clashes in several parts of the country. DW Amharic reports: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PX_JbeuBuSE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248063,"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-248062","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\/11\/SNNPR.jpg?fit=1184%2C747&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-12x0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248062","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=248062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248064,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248062\/revisions\/248064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}