{"id":277053,"date":"2019-05-24T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiR2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNhdGVuYXcuY29tL2Etcm9hZG1hcC1mb3ItcG9saXRpY2FsLXRyYW5zaXRpb24taW4tZXRoaW9waWEv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:17","slug":"a-satenaw-essay-sketched-a-roadmap-for-ethiopias-political-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277053","title":{"rendered":"A Satenaw essay sketched a roadmap for Ethiopia\u2019s political transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Satenaw carried an analysis by Shiferaw Abebe arguing that Ethiopia\u2019s fast political opening after twenty-seven years of EPRDF rule still needed a clearer roadmap if reforms were to stick.<\/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=\"A Satenaw essay sketched a roadmap for Ethiopia\u2019s political transition\" \/>\n<p>The piece said much had changed for the better in about a year, but that unfinished questions of party realignment, regional conflict, and institutional checks could still reverse the gain.<\/p>\n<p>Transition roadmaps from that season matter because they recorded public hope before later wars and ethnic violence remade the map of what reform could mean.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, the Satenaw essay dates one civic attempt to spell out next steps after Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early openings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.satenaw.com\/a-roadmap-for-political-transition-in-ethiopia\/\">Satenaw<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roadmap for political transition in Ethiopia \u2013 Satenaw: Ethiopian News &amp; Breaking News: Your right to know!&nbsp;&nbsp;Satenaw NewsBy Shiferaw Abebe. So much has changed in Ethiopia in the past one year, mostly for the better. A twenty-seven-year sta&#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-277053","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-1a4B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277053","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=277053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754907,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277053\/revisions\/754907"}],"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=277053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}