{"id":275952,"date":"2019-05-13T06:56:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXmh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNS8xMy9ldGhpb3BpYW4tZ292LXQtYmFuay1yb2JiZWQtYWdhaW4tYXMtYW5hcmNoeS1yZWlnbnMtaW4td29sbGVnYS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:52:56","slug":"gunmen-robbed-a-government-bank-again-as-insecurity-spread-in-wollega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275952","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen robbed a government bank again as insecurity spread in Wollega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 May 2019 Borkena reported that gunmen had robbed a government bank in Wollega even as federal and regional authorities claimed the western Ethiopia security picture was improving.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-430688\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Oromo-Liberation-Army-rebels-1.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gunmen robbed a government bank again as insecurity spread in Wollega\" \/>\n<p>Bank robberies, road ambushes, and local anarchy reports from East and West Wollega were early public signs of the wider Oromia violence that later hardened into a long war between the Ethiopian government and Oromo armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Official calm statements and trader fear often traveled on the same day. The Borkena note is useful because it treats a bank heist as a governance signal, not only as crime blotter.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as security archive, the Wollega robbery file sits with other 2019 western Oromia warnings that Addis Ababa\u2019s reform narrative did not match the roads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/05\/13\/ethiopian-gov-t-bank-robbed-again-as-anarchy-reigns-in-wollega\/\">borkena.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian gov.t bank robbed again as anarchy reigns in Wollega&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comAs Ethiopian government and regional authorities are claiming that situation western part of Ethiopia has improved, news are emerging that gunmen robbed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":430688,"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-275952","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\/Oromo-Liberation-Army-rebels-1.jpg?fit=600%2C412&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19MQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275952","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=275952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754512,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275952\/revisions\/754512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}