{"id":276275,"date":"2019-05-17T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiO2h0dHA6Ly93d3cueGluaHVhbmV0LmNvbS9lbmdsaXNoLzIwMTktMDUvMTcvY18xMzgwNjc0NDYuaHRt0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:25","slug":"benishangul-gumuz-officials-said-april-ethnic-clashes-in-dangur-left-31-people-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276275","title":{"rendered":"Benishangul-Gumuz officials said April ethnic clashes in Dangur left 31 people dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 May 2019 Xinhua reported that the Benishangul-Gumuz regional communications office said ethnic clashes in Dangur in late April had left 31 people dead after a dispute between two individuals spread into wider fighting.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-362736\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Benishangul-Gumuz-Bulen-town.png?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Benishangul-Gumuz officials said April ethnic clashes in Dangur left 31 people dead\" \/>\n<p>The statement said the violence pitted Gumuz and Amhara communities against each other, that federal and regional forces had been deployed, and that 63 people were arrested on suspicion of involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Western Ethiopia\u2019s ethnic federal map has repeatedly turned local quarrels into communal killings. Official tallies are often incomplete, but they still fix a date and a death count that later reporting can test.<\/p>\n<p>As conflict archive, the Dangur figure belongs with other Benishangul-Gumuz violence files from the reform years under Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2019-05\/17\/c_138067446.htm\">Xinhua<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent ethnic clashes in west Ethiopia leave 31 dead &#8211; Xinhua | English.news.cn&nbsp;&nbsp;XinhuaADDIS ABABA, May 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; Ethnic clashes in Ethiopia&#8217;s western Benishangul Gumuz regional state in April left 31 people dead, the Benishangul Gumuz &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":362736,"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-276275","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\/2021\/07\/Benishangul-Gumuz-Bulen-town.png?fit=976%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19S3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276275","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=276275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754797,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276275\/revisions\/754797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}