{"id":272474,"date":"2019-04-09T02:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T06:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=272474"},"modified":"2019-04-10T02:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T06:39:56","slug":"takele-uma-sanctions-baladedra-councils-community-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/272474","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Takele Uma and Journalist Eskinder Nega meet to discuss Addis Ababa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fjCiX9t4gAk<\/p>\n<p>Baladera Council was established as a custodian council for Addis Ababa following the community&#8217;s outcry for a qualified representative. The council became a necessity after many politicians and groups began battling for ownership claims over the capital disregarding the residents&#8217; opinions. The council seems to proceed at a steady pace in organizing different members of the city. However, their progress hit a snag when authorities, without any justification, banned one of Baladera&#8217;s council meetings. There were also allegations that the acting mayor didn&#8217;t take kindly to the council&#8217;s movement either. In order to sort out the matter, Baladera Council&#8217;s chairman journalist and human right activist Eskinder Nega and acting mayor Takele Uma sat down for a discussion. Mereja TV reached out to Eskinder Nega for a report on the results of the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fjCiX9t4gAk Baladera Council was established as a custodian council for Addis Ababa following the community&#8217;s outcry for a qualified representative. The council became a necessity after many politicians and groups began battling for ownership claims over the capital disregarding the residents&#8217; opinions. The council seems to proceed at a steady pace in organizing different members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":272478,"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-272474","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\/04\/Takele-Uma-sanctions-Baladedra-Councils-community-meetings-1.jpg?fit=328%2C154&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-18SK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272474","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272612,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272474\/revisions\/272612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}