{"id":272954,"date":"2019-04-13T02:37:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T06:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiPmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvc3VkYW5lc2UtY29udW5kcnVt0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:13","slug":"the-sudanese-conundrum-why-khartoums-crisis-matters-for-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/272954","title":{"rendered":"The Sudanese conundrum: why Khartoum\u2019s crisis matters for Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the military ousted long-ruling president <strong>Omar al-Bashir<\/strong> in April 2019, The Reporter Ethiopia published \u201cThe Sudanese Conundrum,\u201d situating Sudan\u2019s uncertain transition as a strategic problem for Ethiopia\u2014not a distant neighbor\u2019s soap opera.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-464868\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sudan-crisis.png?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1\" alt=\"The Sudanese conundrum: why Khartoum\u2019s crisis matters for Ethiopia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shared borders, Nile politics, trade, refugee flows, and the risk of armed spoilers all tie Khartoum\u2019s stability to Addis Ababa\u2019s security calculus. Ethiopian commentary that spring already treated Sudan\u2019s vacuum as something that could export instability westward and northward.<\/p>\n<p>The essay remains useful Red Sea \/ Horn reference: Ethiopia cannot seal itself off from Sudanese outcomes, and every later Sudan war phase has revisited the same border, mediation, and displacement themes sketched in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/sudanese-conundrum\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sudanese Conundrum&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe situation in Sudan remains uncertain following the ousting of the long serving president, President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir by the military,on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":464868,"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-272954","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\/2023\/10\/sudan-crisis.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-190u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272954","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=272954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600508,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272954\/revisions\/600508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}