{"id":265691,"date":"2019-02-14T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=265691"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:25:20","slug":"ethiopias-military-undergoing-institutional-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/265691","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;s military undergoing institutional reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian military is undergoing reforms to become stronger and more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Chief of General Staff, Gen. Seare Mekonen, said the reforms will make the Ethiopian Defense Forces a more professional outfit. He revealed that the move was inspired by the wave of reforms championed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Seare said although Ethiopia already has a strong army, the reforms are necessary. He explained that the institutional reforms will focus on building an army that is loyal to the constitution alone. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201902140326.html\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian military is undergoing reforms to become stronger and more efficient. Ethiopia&#8217;s Chief of General Staff, Gen. Seare Mekonen, said the reforms will make the Ethiopian Defense Forces a more professional outfit. He revealed that the move was inspired by the wave of reforms championed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Gen. Seare said although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":265708,"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-265691","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\/DfGyBNmWkAAQKIf-e1550165103740.jpg?fit=380%2C280&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-177l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265691","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=265691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265709,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265691\/revisions\/265709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}