{"id":261218,"date":"2019-01-15T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=319f3133be0f7b6c9433a018a21afcbb"},"modified":"2019-01-15T06:47:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:47:59","slug":"oromo-liberation-front-condemns-government-air-strikes-in-western-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/261218","title":{"rendered":"Oromo Liberation Front condemns government air strikes in Western Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The faction of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) led by Dawud Ibsa has condemned government airstrikes in western Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>The militant group said in a statement that the air strikes destroyed buildings and forced citizens to flee.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the airstrikes and other attacks by the Ethiopian army are uncalled for since the OLF has called for the resumption of peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian government has declared a state of emergency in the border area between Oromia and Benishangul-Gumuz. On Sunday, the army reportedly conducted airstrikes targeting rebel training camps in the Oromia region. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-01-14\/returned-ethiopian-rebels-say-army-targeting-them-with-gunships\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returned Ethiopian Rebels Say Army Targeting Them With Gunships&nbsp;&nbsp;BloombergRebels who returned to Ethiopia last year accused the army of targeting them with airstrikes after they called for the renegotiation of a peace deal with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261247,"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-261218","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\/1024x538_612099.jpg?fit=1024%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-15Xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261218","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=261218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261248,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261218\/revisions\/261248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}