{"id":276774,"date":"2019-05-22T17:09:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmhlbGxlbmljc2hpcHBpbmduZXdzLmNvbS9ldGhpb3BpYS1idXlzLTYwMDAwMC10b25uZXMtd2hlYXQtaW4tdGVuZGVyL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:47:55","slug":"ethiopia-bought-about-600000-tonnes-of-wheat-in-an-international-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276774","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia bought about 600,000 tonnes of wheat in an international tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Hellenic Shipping News reported that an Ethiopian state purchasing agency bought roughly 600,000 tonnes of wheat from optional origins after an international tender closed.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-434588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia bought about 600,000 tonnes of wheat in an international tender\" \/>\n<p>Large wheat tenders are a routine FX and food-security signal for a country that still mixes domestic harvests with imports when rains fail or when conflict disrupts farming.<\/p>\n<p>The May 2019 purchase sat in the same season as FEWS NET drought warnings for the wider Horn.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as food trade archive, the 600,000-tonne tender is a dated marker of state import dependence under Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellenicshippingnews.com\/ethiopia-buys-600000-tonnes-wheat-in-tender\/\">Hellenic Shipping News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia buys 600000 tonnes wheat in tender&nbsp;&nbsp;Hellenic Shipping News WorldwideAn Ethiopian state purchasing agency has bought about 600000 tonnes of wheat to be sourced from optional origins in an international tender which closed on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":434588,"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-276774","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\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=1080%2C809&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a06","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276774","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=276774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754870,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276774\/revisions\/754870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}