{"id":275683,"date":"2019-05-09T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMia2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmluZGVwdGhuZXdzLm5ldC9pbmRleC5waHAvdGhlLXdvcmxkL2FmcmljYS8yNjczLWV4b2R1cy1vZi1lcml0cmVhbnMtaW4tcG9zdC1wZWFjZS1lcmEtY29udGludWVz0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:52:25","slug":"eritrean-exodus-continued-even-after-the-ethiopia-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275683","title":{"rendered":"Eritrean exodus continued even after the Ethiopia peace deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 IDN-InDepthNews reported from Brussels that hope for change inside Eritrea after the July 2018 Ethiopia-Eritrea peace agreement had already faded, and that people were still leaving.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-420569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eritrean exodus continued even after the Ethiopia peace deal\" \/>\n<p>Nearly a year after Abiy Ahmed\u2019s handshake with Isaias Afwerki, indefinite national service and closed politics kept pushing Eritreans onto the same migrant routes through Sudan, Libya, and Europe. Peace next door did not rewrite life inside a one-party security state.<\/p>\n<p>The Horn\u2019s refugee story is often told only as Ethiopia\u2019s IDP crisis. This file keeps Eritrea\u2019s continuing outflow on the same shelf, because Red Sea and Mediterranean arrivals did not pause for ribbon cuttings.<\/p>\n<p>As migration archive, the IDN assessment is a dated warning: diplomatic thaw without domestic reform still exports people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indepthnews.net\/index.php\/the-world\/africa\/2673-exodus-of-eritreans-in-post-peace-era-continues\">IDN-InDepthNews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exodus of Eritreans in Post-Peace Era Continues&nbsp;&nbsp;IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That MattersBRUSSELS (IDN) \u2013 Hope for change in Eritrea after the July 2018 Ethiopia-Eritrea peace agreement has faded. Nearly a year after Ethiopia&#8217;s Prime Minister &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":420569,"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-275683","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\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=650%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275683","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=275683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754501,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275683\/revisions\/754501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}