{"id":275576,"date":"2019-05-08T19:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T23:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiKmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJiYy5jb20vbmV3cy9idXNpbmVzcy00NzkzNDM5ONIBLmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJiYy5jb20vbmV3cy9hbXAvYnVzaW5lc3MtNDc5MzQzOTg?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:52:15","slug":"bbc-asked-if-eritrea-could-finally-come-in-from-the-cold-after-peace-with-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275576","title":{"rendered":"BBC asked if Eritrea could finally come in from the cold after peace with Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 BBC Business reporters Milena Belloni and James Jeffrey asked whether Eritrea, after years of war, authoritarian rule, and United Nations sanctions, could finally grow an economy that exported more goods than people.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-429435\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Eritrean-troops.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BBC asked if Eritrea could finally come in from the cold after peace with Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>They noted that Abiy Ahmed\u2019s July 2018 peace deal with Isaias Afwerki had reopened the border, let Ethiopian goods flow north, and revived talk of Massawa as a Red Sea outlet for landlocked Ethiopia that had depended on Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p>The hurdles stayed plain: indefinite national service, a militarised one-party state, and a mostly agrarian poverty that still pushed a huge diaspora abroad. Business hopes and political fear traveled in the same convoy.<\/p>\n<p>As Horn geopolitics archive, the BBC file remains useful. Peace on paper did not automatically mean open politics, and later years showed how thin the economic thaw could be when Asmara kept the old security habits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-47934398\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Eritrea coming in from the cold?&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC NewsAfter years of sanctions and war, can the African country finally realise its economic potential?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":429435,"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-275576","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\/01\/Eritrean-troops.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19GM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275576","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=275576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754497,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275576\/revisions\/754497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}