{"id":265363,"date":"2019-02-12T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=265363"},"modified":"2019-02-12T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:02:44","slug":"hailemariam-desalegn-to-lead-au-election-mission-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/265363","title":{"rendered":"Hailemariam Desalegn to lead AU election mission to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn has been assigned to lead an African Union (AU) election mission to Nigeria. The AU mission is tasked with observing Nigeria&#8217;s upcoming presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nigeria is a very important country for the whole of Africa, in terms of population and economy. We don&#8217;t need any conflict resulting from the election. All partners including the AU will work together to ensure free, fair and democratic elections are held in Nigeria,&#8221; AU Commissioner for Political Affairs Minata Samate Cessouma said during a press conference in Addis Ababa over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s next presidential election is set to be held on February 16. About 84 million Nigerians are expected to participate in the polls.[&#8230;] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghananewsagency.org\/africa\/former-ethiopian-pm-to-head-au-election-mission-in-nigeria--145193\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn has been assigned to lead an African Union (AU) election mission to Nigeria. The AU mission is tasked with observing Nigeria&#8217;s upcoming presidential elections. &#8220;Nigeria is a very important country for the whole of Africa, in terms of population and economy. We don&#8217;t need any conflict resulting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":265378,"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-265363","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\/02\/ethiopian-prime-minister-hailemariam-desalegn-attends-au-summit-addis-ababa..jpg?fit=737%2C475&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1723","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265363","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265379,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265363\/revisions\/265379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}