{"id":276509,"date":"2019-05-20T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiV2h0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vZXRoaW9waWFuLWFybXktYnJpbmdzLWJhY2stMTUwMC1wZW9wbGUtZXhpbGVkLXRvLXN1ZGFuL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:13","slug":"ethiopian-army-said-it-helped-return-1500-people-who-had-fled-to-sudan-from-gondar-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276509","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Army said it helped return 1,500 people who had fled to Sudan from Gondar areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 New Business Ethiopia reported that the Ethiopian Army said it had helped bring back about 1,500 Ethiopians who had gone into exile in Sudan from western and central Gondar in Amhara Region.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopian Army said it helped return 1,500 people who had fled to Sudan from Gondar areas\" \/>\n<p>Cross-border flight from Amhara into Sudan has a long history whenever local security collapses. Official return counts often arrive without independent verification of whether people came home voluntarily or under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, a named figure of 1,500 returnees is a dated migration marker for the Amhara\u2013Sudan corridor in 2019, before later wars drove far larger refugee waves the other way.<\/p>\n<p>As migration archive, the army\u2019s claim belongs with other Horn border files that track how violence in Gondar pushed civilians across the frontier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/ethiopian-army-brings-back-1500-people-exiled-to-sudan\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Army brings back 1500 people exiled to Sudan&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaThe Ethiopian Army says it has helped the return of 1,500 Ethiopians exiled to the neighboring Sudan from western and central Gondar area of Amhara region &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"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-276509","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\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19VP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276509","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=276509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754831,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276509\/revisions\/754831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}