{"id":274753,"date":"2019-05-05T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDUvMDUvZXRoaW9waWEtcy1zb21hbGktYWZhci1yZWdpb25zLXNwYXItb3Zlci0yMDE0LWFncmVlbWVudC_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:22","slug":"somali-and-afar-ruling-parties-sparred-over-a-2014-border-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274753","title":{"rendered":"Somali and Afar ruling parties sparred over a 2014 border agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early May 2019 Africanews reported that the Afar and Somali regions\u2019 ruling parties had spent three days in moves that security watchers called disturbing, reopening fights over a 2014 agreement meant to settle contested kebeles and administrative lines.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-493684\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Somalia-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Somali and Afar ruling parties sparred over a 2014 border agreement\" \/>\n<p>Federal Ethiopia\u2019s ethnic map turns old grazing routes into constitutional tripwires. When regional parties weaponize a paper deal, civilians on the Afar\u2013Somali seam pay first.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early years sold national unity while regional special forces and party machines kept redrawing loyalty. Border agreements that stay unimplemented are fuses, not archives.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as federal conflict reference, the 2014-agreement spar helps explain later Afar\u2013Somali violence that national media still under-covers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/05\/05\/ethiopia-s-somali-afar-regions-spar-over-2014-agreement\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Somali, Afar regions spar over 2014 agreement&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews in EnglishThe Afar and Somali regions&#8217; ruling parties have in the last three days engaged in actions that according to security and political watchers are disturbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":493684,"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-274753","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\/2025\/01\/Somalia-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=460%2C438&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274753","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=274753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602521,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274753\/revisions\/602521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}