{"id":273614,"date":"2019-04-20T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=3f88c44cc800a4c9f1a21bed3c366725"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:16","slug":"kenya-and-ethiopia-tried-to-cool-inter-clan-border-wars-threatening-lapsset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273614","title":{"rendered":"Kenya and Ethiopia tried to cool inter-clan border wars threatening Lapsset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, The East African reported that Kenya and Ethiopia were pushing border communities to drop <strong>inter-clan violence<\/strong> that threatened people and the Lapsset infrastructure corridor linking the coast to the hinterland.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kenya and Ethiopia tried to cool inter-clan border wars threatening Lapsset\" \/>\n<p>Cross-border raids and revenge cycles along the Kenya-Ethiopia frontier have long outlasted summit communiqu\u00e9s. Officials wanted cooperation meetings in Addis to translate into quieter grazing routes and safer roads.<\/p>\n<p>For both governments, the stakes mixed security and capital: pipelines, ports, and highways only pay if communities are not trapped in militia logic. Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early diplomacy brand included looking constructive with Nairobi even when domestic fires burned.<\/p>\n<p>The lasting reference is simple. Mega-corridors in the Horn fail when pastoral conflict is treated as a public-relations sidebar. Border peace is infrastructure, not a photo op.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Kenya-ethiopia-move-to-end-interclan-wars\/4552908-5080316-66kspiz\/index.html\">The East African<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya, Ethiopia move to end inter-clan wars&nbsp;&nbsp;The East AfricanViolence along the border poses dangers to infrastructure projects planned Lapsset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"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-273614","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\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19b8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273614","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=273614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601046,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273614\/revisions\/601046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}