{"id":274198,"date":"2019-04-27T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnJ0ZS5pZS9uZXdzL3dvcmxkLzIwMTkvMDQyNy8xMDQ2MDQxLWZvcm1lci1ldGhpb3BpYW4tcHJlc2lkZW50LWRpZXMv0gEfaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucnRlLmllL2FtcC8xMDQ2MDQxLw?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:37","slug":"former-ethiopian-president-negasso-gidada-died-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274198","title":{"rendered":"Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada died at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, RT\u00c9 and other outlets reported that Negasso Gidada, Ethiopia\u2019s former president (1995\u20132001), had died at 75, closing a chapter on a figure who sat at the top of the federal republic\u2019s early ceremonial office under EPRDF power realities.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-274819\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Funeral-service-for-former-Ethiopian-President-Negasso-Gidada-Live-1.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada died at 75\" \/>\n<p>Negasso later broke with the ruling coalition and spoke critically about democracy and contested histories, including Anole and other wounds that official narratives preferred to flatten.<\/p>\n<p>Obituaries are not nostalgia. They are a chance to remember how Ethiopia\u2019s presidency was designed as limited power while real command stayed in party and security hands, a structure Abiy Ahmed inherited and remade.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as history reference, Negasso\u2019s death marks a generation of transitional elites. The arguments he joined about federalism and memory did not die with him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2019\/0427\/1046041-former-ethiopian-president\/\">RT\u00c9<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada dead at 75&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ieFormer Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada has died in Germany where he was undergoing medical treatment for an unspecified illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":274819,"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-274198","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\/05\/Funeral-service-for-former-Ethiopian-President-Negasso-Gidada-Live-1.jpg?fit=1403%2C722&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19ky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274198","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=274198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601456,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274198\/revisions\/601456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}