{"id":273055,"date":"2019-04-14T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDQvMTQvZXRoaW9waWEtcy1yb29mLW9mLWFmcmljYS1mb3Jlc3QtYnVybnMtaXNyYWVsLWpvaW5zLWZpcmUtY29tYmF0L9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:24","slug":"fire-on-the-roof-of-africa-israel-joins-ethiopias-simien-forest-blaze-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273055","title":{"rendered":"Fire on the Roof of Africa: Israel joins Ethiopia\u2019s Simien forest blaze fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-April 2019, a major forest fire in Ethiopia\u2019s <strong>Simien Mountains<\/strong>\u2014the \u201cRoof of Africa\u201d\u2014drew international help, including Israeli firefighters joining local and other foreign teams.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-273081\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simien-Mountains-on-fire.jpg?fit=768%2C475&ssl=1\" alt=\"Fire on the Roof of Africa: Israel joins Ethiopia\u2019s Simien forest blaze fight\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Africanews and regional outlets described a blaze that threatened highland forest ecosystems already under pressure from agriculture, climate stress, and limited suppression capacity in steep terrain.<\/p>\n<p>The episode is lasting environmental reference: Simien is UNESCO-listed heritage and a biodiversity stronghold. How Ethiopia prevents and fights highland fires is a governance and conservation question, not only a one-week rescue story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/04\/14\/ethiopia-s-roof-of-africa-forest-burns-israel-joins-fire-combat\/\">Africanews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/9\/\">UNESCO Simien Mountains<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s &#8216;Roof of Africa&#8217; forest burns: Israel joins fire combat&nbsp;&nbsp;africanewsIsraeli firefighters are the latest addition to a growing list of experts in Ethiopia to help authorities deal with a rampaging forest fire that has hit the Semien &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":273081,"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-273055","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\/Simien-Mountains-on-fire.jpg?fit=825%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1927","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273055","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=273055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600559,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273055\/revisions\/600559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}