{"id":261094,"date":"2019-01-15T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=8dc01fa43c5104f31a699fdfd6484dab"},"modified":"2019-02-08T02:29:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T07:29:45","slug":"ethiopia-djibouti-highway-blocked-by-protesters-in-the-afar-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/261094","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia-Djibouti highway blocked by protesters in the Afar region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters from the Afar region have blocked a highway connecting Ethiopia and Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters say the demonstration is in response to violence by armed groups, who are believed to belong to the Somali Isa clan.<\/p>\n<p>The highway between Awash and Semera is reportedly the main route for export between both countries. A railway connecting Ethiopia and Djibouti was also been affected by the protests. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/addisstandard.com\/news-main-road-connecting-ethiopia-to-djibouti-blocked-by-protesters-in-afar-2\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Main road connecting Ethiopia to Djibouti blocked by protesters in Afar&nbsp;&nbsp;addisstandard.comAddis Abeba, January 13\/2018 \u2013 Protesters in Afar regional state have today blocked the main road connecting Ethiopia to Djibouti, the main import&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261243,"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-261094","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\/vincent_photo_4.jpg?fit=644%2C484&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-15Vc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261094","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=261094"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261244,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261094\/revisions\/261244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}