{"id":276438,"date":"2019-05-19T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNhdGVuYXcuY29tL3NvbWFsaS1nb3YtYWNjdXNlcy1ldGhpb3BpYS1lbWJhc3N5LW9mLWNvbG9uaWFsLXRhY3RpY3Mv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:27:58","slug":"somali-regional-officials-accused-ethiopias-london-embassy-of-colonial-style-diaspora-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276438","title":{"rendered":"Somali regional officials accused Ethiopia\u2019s London embassy of colonial-style diaspora tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Satenaw relayed a column in which a Somali Regional State advisor accused Ethiopia\u2019s embassy in London of using colonial-style tactics to divide the diaspora and meddle in regional politics.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-493684\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Somalia-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Somali regional officials accused Ethiopia\u2019s London embassy of colonial-style diaspora tactics\" \/>\n<p>Embassy politics abroad often mirror fights at home. When federal and regional elites clash over identity, security, and money, diaspora halls in London and elsewhere become another arena.<\/p>\n<p>Somali Region\u2019s relationship with Addis Ababa was already raw after years of conflict, repression, and later reform appointments. Accusations that diplomats were picking winners among exiles fit that longer pattern.<\/p>\n<p>As Horn geopolitics archive, the file keeps a dated regional charge against federal diaspora diplomacy rather than treating embassies as neutral passport offices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.satenaw.com\/somali-gov-accuses-ethiopia-embassy-of-colonial-tactics\/\">Satenaw News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somali Gov accuses Ethiopia embassy of &#8220;colonial tactics&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;Satenaw NewsTeshome M. Borago | Zehabesha-Satenaw Columnist. Somali state government advisor accused the Ethiopian embassy in London of using \u201ccolonial tactics\u201d to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":493684,"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-276438","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\/2025\/01\/Somalia-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=460%2C438&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19UG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276438","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=276438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754823,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276438\/revisions\/754823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}