{"id":260046,"date":"2019-01-07T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiJGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYXdyYW1iYXRpbWVzLmNvbS8_cD0xNzI2M9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:04:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:04:29","slug":"us-denies-involvement-in-bringing-prime-minister-abiy-ahmed-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/260046","title":{"rendered":"US denies involvement in bringing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has denied playing a part in the recent political change in Ethiopia. According to the US Embassy in Ethiopia, America was not involved in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed&#8217;s election to office.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Burnet, the spokesperson of the US embassy in Ethiopia, denied the allegation which was made by a veteran of the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front.<\/p>\n<p>Sibhat\u00a0Nega claimed the US pulled strings to bring the\u00a0Premier to power during a symposium last month.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s new Prime Minister has made headlines since taking office. The 42-year-old from the Oromia region has been hailed for ushering Ethiopia into a new era of peace and accountability. [&#8230;] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awrambatimes.com\/?p=17263\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Embassy Dismisses Allegations of Tacit Involvement in Ethiopia&#8217;s Recent Poltical Transition (Video)&nbsp;&nbsp;Awramba TimesAwramba Times (Addis Ababa) \u2013 The United States embassy in Ethiopia has dismissed allegations of tacit involvement in Ethiopi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260082,"comment_status":"closed","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-260046","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\/12\/880x495_cmsv2_155a8edf-5349-557d-b11b-af1993497521-3382236.jpg?fit=880%2C495&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-15Ei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260046","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=260046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260088,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260046\/revisions\/260088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}