{"id":276246,"date":"2019-05-16T22:47:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiQGh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNS8xNi9pbnRlcnZpZXctd2l0aC15b2hhbm5lcy1idWF5YWxldy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:16","slug":"amhara-democratic-party-official-yohannes-buayalew-gave-a-recorded-interview-on-walta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276246","title":{"rendered":"Amhara Democratic Party official Yohannes Buayalew gave a recorded interview on Walta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Borkena flagged a Walta Information interview with Yohannes Buayalew, then a senior figure in the Amhara Democratic Party, one of the EPRDF successor parties navigating Abiy Ahmed\u2019s reform years.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amhara Democratic Party official Yohannes Buayalew gave a recorded interview on Walta\" \/>\n<p>Party interviews from that season matter because Amhara politics was already shifting under street pressure, elite splits, and fights over security and identity that later exploded into open war.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers who still have the Walta recording can hear how ADP officials described federal partnership and regional demands before later ruptures. The printed notice alone is thin, but it dates the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>As politics archive, the item is a pointer to a primary-source interview rather than a finished analysis. It keeps Buayalew\u2019s name and the May 2019 timing in the public file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/05\/16\/interview-with-yohannes-buayalew\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia : Interview with Yohannes Buayalew&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comYohannes Buayalew, Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) top official had an interview with Walta Information. Watch video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"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-276246","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\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19RA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276246","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=276246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754792,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276246\/revisions\/754792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}