{"id":273630,"date":"2019-04-20T03:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T07:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdW5jZXJ0YWludHktc3VkYW4tZXRoaW9waWFzLWV4cGVjdGF0aW9uc9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:10","slug":"sudans-upheaval-and-ethiopias-uneasy-expectations-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273630","title":{"rendered":"Sudan\u2019s upheaval and Ethiopia\u2019s uneasy expectations next door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, as Sudan\u2019s transitional military council struggled and street protests continued, The Reporter Ethiopia asked what the chaos meant for <strong>Ethiopia\u2019s<\/strong> security, trade, and Nile diplomacy.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" 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%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sudan\u2019s upheaval and Ethiopia\u2019s uneasy expectations next door\" \/>\n<p>Addis Ababa had reason to watch closely: shared borders, refugee flows, GERD talks, and a Horn where one capital\u2019s breakdown quickly becomes another\u2019s contingency plan. Officials in Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government talked calm continuity while the map next door stayed fluid.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s own reform branding that year depended on looking like the region\u2019s stabilizer. Sudan\u2019s crisis tested whether that image was strategy or wishful branding as federal conflicts inside Ethiopia were already rising.<\/p>\n<p>The Sudan file remains useful because Nile politics and Red Sea logistics never stop at one border post. When Khartoum shakes, Addis feels it in refugees, prices, and bargaining chips over the dam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/uncertainty-sudan-ethiopias-expectations\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertainty in Sudan \u2013 Ethiopia&#8217;s expectations&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe situation in Sudan remains uncertain where the transitional military council is already expressing turbulence and the protests are still far from over.<\/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-273630","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-19bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273630","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=273630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601044,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273630\/revisions\/601044"}],"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=273630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}