{"id":272945,"date":"2019-04-13T03:09:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T07:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiSmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvZXRobmljLXBvbGl0aWNzLXBlcmlsLWV0aGlvcGlh0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:56","slug":"ethnic-politics-the-peril-facing-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/272945","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic politics: the peril facing Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year after Abiy Ahmed took office, The Reporter Ethiopia argued that the early euphoria was fading and that <strong>ethnic politics<\/strong> remained the country\u2019s central peril\u2014capable of undoing reform gains if federal and community bargains failed.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-336219\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Amnesty-Internaional-barbed-candle.jpg?fit=780%2C439&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethnic politics: the peril facing Ethiopia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The analysis tracked a familiar pattern: opening political space without settling contests over land, language, regional borders, and security force loyalty can accelerate identity conflict rather than calm it.<\/p>\n<p>For researchers and readers mapping 2018\u20132020, this kind of local commentary is primary-source texture. It shows what Ethiopian newspapers were already naming as the core risk while much foreign coverage still lingered on the reform brand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/ethnic-politics-peril-ethiopia\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic politics: the peril of Ethiopia?&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe euphoria that engulfed the country one year ago when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) assumed the hot seat at Arat kilo seems to be receding slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":336219,"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-272945","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\/2020\/11\/Amnesty-Internaional-barbed-candle.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-190l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272945","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600583,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272945\/revisions\/600583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}