{"id":276971,"date":"2019-05-24T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMic2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDUvMjQvZXJpdHJlYS1zLWZpcnN0LXBvc3Qtd2FyLWluZGVwZW5kZW5jZS1kYXktc291dGgtYWZyaWNhLXMtYW5jLXNhbHV0ZXMtYWZ3ZXJraS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:53:48","slug":"south-africas-anc-saluted-isaias-afwerki-on-eritreas-first-postwar-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276971","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s ANC saluted Isaias Afwerki on Eritrea\u2019s first postwar independence day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Africanews reported that South Africa\u2019s ruling African National Congress congratulated Eritrea on its 28th independence anniversary, the first such celebration after the 2018 peace with Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-420569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"South Africa\u2019s ANC saluted Isaias Afwerki on Eritrea\u2019s first postwar independence day\" \/>\n<p>The ANC statement praised Isaias Afwerki\u2019s government in language that sat uneasily beside Eritrean exile criticism of indefinite national service and closed politics.<\/p>\n<p>Independence-day diplomacy between liberation movements still shapes how African parties talk about Eritrea, even when rights groups describe the same state as highly repressive.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as Horn geopolitics archive, the ANC salute marks how party-to-party solidarity outlived the short border-opening spring of 2018\u201319.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/05\/24\/eritrea-s-first-post-war-independence-day-south-africa-s-anc-salutes-afwerki\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eritrea&#8217;s first post-war independence day: South Africa&#8217;s ANC salutes Afwerki&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews EnglishSouth Africa&#8217;s ruling African National Congress, ANC, on Thursday (May 23) congratulated Eritrea on its 28th independence day celebrations. An AN&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":420569,"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-276971","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\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=650%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a3h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276971","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=276971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754900,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276971\/revisions\/754900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}