{"id":276547,"date":"2019-05-20T09:52:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVmh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vZXRoaW9waWEtZnJvbS10cGxmLWZyeWluZy1wYW4taW50by1ldGhuby1hbmFyY2h5LWZpcmUv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:12","slug":"commentary-asked-if-ethiopia-had-left-the-tplf-pan-only-to-fall-into-ethno-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276547","title":{"rendered":"Commentary asked if Ethiopia had left the TPLF pan only to fall into ethno-anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 New Business Ethiopia published a commentary by Tesfu Telahoun Abebe asking whether Ethiopia had escaped TPLF dominance only to slide into what he called ethno-anarchy after the early optimism of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s first months.<\/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=\"Commentary asked if Ethiopia had left the TPLF pan only to fall into ethno-anarchy\" \/>\n<p>The author tied the question to an earlier July 2018 essay on the first hundred days of sunshine and then returned to rising ethnic violence, elite fractures, and weak institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion pieces are not verified tallies, but dated commentary still shows how writers inside the country framed the reform arc before later full-scale wars.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, the frying-pan metaphor records a contemporary fear that removing one hegemonic party would not by itself produce a stable civic order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/ethiopia-from-tplf-frying-pan-into-ethno-anarchy-fire\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: From TPLF frying pan into Ethno-anarchy fire?&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaPart one \u2013 By Tesfu Telahoun Abebe \u2013 About 10 months ago-July 11, 2018 to be precise-I penned a piece on this newsmagazine titled, \u201c100 Days of Sunshine &#8230;<\/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-276547","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-19Wr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276547","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=276547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754830,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276547\/revisions\/754830"}],"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=276547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}