{"id":260663,"date":"2019-01-11T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaGh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wMS8xMC9ldGhpb3BpYXMtcG9wdWxhci1zaW5nZXItbWFrZXMtYS1jYXNlLWZvci10aGUtcmV0dXJuLW9mLWNvbG9uZWwtbWVuZ2lzdHUv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2019-02-08T04:57:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T09:57:34","slug":"legendary-ethiopian-singer-calls-for-forgiveness-for-exiled-colonel-mengistu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/260663","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Ethiopian singer calls for forgiveness for exiled Colonel Mengistu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wubeshaw Seleshi, one of Ethiopia&#8217;s legendary singers, has called for forgiveness for ex-President Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam.<\/p>\n<p>Wubeshaw gained fame for her songs during the revolutionary era which happened following the coup d-etat against of his Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie.<\/p>\n<p>Wubeshaw, who noted in a recent interview that she supports the reforms by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, added that since it is a time for forgiveness she thinks that Colonel Mengistu should also be forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>Wubeshaw noted that Mengistu, who has been living in exile in Zimbabwe, should be allowed to come home. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/01\/10\/ethiopias-popular-singer-makes-a-case-for-the-return-of-colonel-mengistu\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s popular singer makes a case for the return of Colonel Mengistu&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comborkena. January 10,2019. Wubeshaw Seleshi was one of Ethiopia&#8217;s popular singer. She was mostly known for her revolutionary songs during the military &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260822,"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-260663","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\/2019\/01\/1059868436.jpg?fit=1000%2C541&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-15Of","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260663","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=260663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260823,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260663\/revisions\/260823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}