{"id":274280,"date":"2019-04-29T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=080d938c611fffecdf808d9e05d9d21c"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:48","slug":"kenya-and-ethiopia-pushed-a-cross-border-initiative-for-quieter-frontiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274280","title":{"rendered":"Kenya and Ethiopia pushed a cross-border initiative for quieter frontiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, Inter Press Service covered Kenya\u2013Ethiopia cross-border peace efforts aimed at cooling inter-community violence that threatened lives and corridor dreams along the shared frontier.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-425108\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221222_191454-1.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kenya and Ethiopia pushed a cross-border initiative for quieter frontiers\" \/>\n<p>Pastoral conflict, revenge raids, and thin state presence do not vanish because ministers sign communiqu\u00e9s. Still, joint initiatives can open grazing agreements and policing habits that reduce body counts.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early diplomacy brand included looking constructive with Nairobi even while domestic fires burned. Border peace is also Lapsset and trade math.<\/p>\n<p>As Horn security reference, the IPS file pairs with earlier East African reporting: infrastructure fails when communities are trapped in militia logic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2019\/04\/kenya-ethiopia-cross-border-initiative-move-towards-sustainable-peace\/\">Inter Press Service<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya and Ethiopia Cross-Border Initiative: A Move Towards Sustainable Peace&nbsp;&nbsp;Inter Press ServiceNAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 29 2019 (IPS) &#8211; Many years of internecine conflict is being replaced by a new narrative of peace along the Kenya-Ethiopia bor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":425108,"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-274280","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\/2022\/12\/20221222_191454-1.jpg?fit=2000%2C934&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19lS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274280","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=274280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601460,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274280\/revisions\/601460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}