{"id":273463,"date":"2019-04-18T09:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVGh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNC8xOC9lcml0cmVhLWNsb3Nlcy1ldGhpb3BpYW4tYm9yZGVyLWFsb25nLW9taGFqZXItaHVtZXJhL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:23:28","slug":"eritrea-closed-the-omhajer-humera-border-with-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273463","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea closed the Omhajer-Humera border with Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borkena reported in April 2019 that Eritrea had closed the <strong>Omhajer-Humera<\/strong> border crossing with Ethiopia, not long after the post-2018 opening had let people and goods move again.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-358070\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TPLF-1.jpg?fit=780%2C525&ssl=1\" alt=\"Eritrea closed the Omhajer-Humera border with Ethiopia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Citing Eritrean Press, the story also noted troop moves near the Sudan frontier after Omar al-Bashir\u2019s fall, and said restrictions were from the Eritrean side while Ethiopia was not blocking Eritrean entry the same way.<\/p>\n<p>The closure mattered because Abiy Ahmed\u2019s peace branding depended on open roads and family reunions. When Asmara shut a gate, the handshake looked thinner. Comprehensive agreements were still being promised, not delivered.<\/p>\n<p>As geopolitics reference, Omhajer-Humera is an early crack in the 2018 euphoria. Border openings that can be reversed overnight were never the same as a settled peace architecture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/04\/18\/eritrea-closes-ethiopian-border-along-omhajer-humera\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eritrea closes Ethiopian border along Omhajer-Humera&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comEritrea reportedly deployed troops to along the border area with Sudan and closed Omhajer-Humera border crossings which was opened this year. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":358070,"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-273463","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\/2021\/05\/TPLF-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C1377&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-198H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273463","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=273463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600855,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273463\/revisions\/600855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}