{"id":274151,"date":"2019-04-27T03:07:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T07:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiWWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaWNsLWRyb3BzLWNoYXJnZS1hZ2FpbnN0LWV0aGlvcGlhbi1nb3Z0LWhhZ3Vl0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:32","slug":"icl-dropped-its-hague-case-against-the-ethiopian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274151","title":{"rendered":"ICL dropped its Hague case against the Ethiopian government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, The Reporter Ethiopia reported that Israel\u2019s ICL dropped charges it had brought against the Ethiopian government at The Hague, closing a contentious investment-dispute chapter tied to potash and concession politics.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-219871\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/9D880561-8D1D-43B0-990F-6888620AD82F_cx4_cy0_cw89_w1023_r1_s.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ICL dropped its Hague case against the Ethiopian government\" \/>\n<p>Investor-state fights are a map of leverage. When a multinational walks back a claim, it may signal settlement, exhaustion, or a political bargain the public never sees.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s investment pitch needed foreign capital and hated ugly arbitration headlines. Dropping a Hague file cleaned the brochure. It did not automatically settle community or sovereignty questions around minerals.<\/p>\n<p>As business\/law archive, the ICL note is a marker in Ethiopia\u2019s potash story: contracts, courts, and quiet endings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/icl-drops-charge-against-ethiopian-govt-hague\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICL drops charge against Ethiopian gov&#8217;t at The Hague&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe Israeli fertilizer giant, Israel Chemicals (ICL), which filed a law suit against the Ethiopian government at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":219871,"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-274151","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\/2018\/05\/9D880561-8D1D-43B0-990F-6888620AD82F_cx4_cy0_cw89_w1023_r1_s.jpg?fit=1023%2C575&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19jN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274151","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=274151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601453,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274151\/revisions\/601453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}