{"id":276997,"date":"2019-05-24T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEMmc9X0vrNd6zi7_ooWJIOIqFAgEKgwIACoFCAowhgIwkDgwob0I?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:53:57","slug":"an-al-jazeera-opinion-piece-said-eritreans-wanted-freedom-after-peace-with-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276997","title":{"rendered":"An Al Jazeera opinion piece said Eritreans wanted freedom after peace with Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Al Jazeera published an Independence Day opinion by exiled Eritrean journalist Abraham T. Zere arguing that peace with Ethiopia had not delivered political freedom inside Eritrea.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-429435\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Eritrean-troops.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An Al Jazeera opinion piece said Eritreans wanted freedom after peace with Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>The essay said Isaias Afwerki\u2019s government still blocked reform, and that many Eritreans were already imagining a country after Afwerki even while official parades celebrated the armed struggle and the new diplomatic thaw.<\/p>\n<p>Peace without openings left national service, media control, and exile politics largely unchanged, and the piece captured that gap for readers watching Asmara from outside.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as rights and politics archive, the Al Jazeera column dates Eritrean dissent at the first postwar independence anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2019\/5\/24\/eritreans-have-peace-now-they-want-freedom\">Al Jazeera Opinion<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eritreans have peace, now they want freedom&nbsp;&nbsp;Al Jazeera EnglishOn this year&#8217;s Independence Day, Eritreans are dreaming of a post-Afwerki Eritrea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":429435,"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-276997","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\/01\/Eritrean-troops.jpg?fit=800%2C450&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\/276997","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=276997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754902,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276997\/revisions\/754902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}