{"id":274851,"date":"2019-05-06T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=c546d7d4fe81ead8e3001a16ed9ad4a2"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:25","slug":"ips-gambella-lived-in-the-shadow-of-south-sudans-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274851","title":{"rendered":"IPS: Gambella lived in the shadow of South Sudan\u2019s war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 May 2019 Inter Press Service reported from Gambella on Ethiopia\u2019s western edge, where South Sudan\u2019s conflict spilled into refugee flows, ethnic tension, and a city economy shaped by war next door more than by Addis talking points.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IPS: Gambella lived in the shadow of South Sudan\u2019s war\" \/>\n<p>Border towns absorb bullets and bureaucracy that capitals treat as someone else\u2019s emergency. Gambella\u2019s Nuer, Anuak, and highland settler politics sat inside a humanitarian corridor that never felt temporary.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s foreign-policy brand looked east and to Eritrea. Western Ethiopia\u2019s South Sudan shadow kept proving that Horn security is a neighborhood, not a summit photo.<\/p>\n<p>As borders\/refugees archive, the IPS Gambella feature remains essential reading for anyone who thinks Ethiopia\u2019s crises stop at the Amhara or Tigray headlines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2019\/05\/ethiopian-city-lost-shadow-south-sudans-war\/\">Inter Press Service<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian City Lost in the Shadow of South Sudan\u2019s War&nbsp;&nbsp;Inter Press ServiceGAMBELLA, Ethiopia, May 6 2019 (IPS) &#8211; Right up against the border with South Sudan, the western Gambella region of Ethiopia has become a watchword for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"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-274851","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\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19v5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274851","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=274851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602522,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274851\/revisions\/602522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}