{"id":277299,"date":"2019-05-28T10:57:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=43318df55a9508a9a2833a5085b5631c"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:27:30","slug":"trt-world-said-abiys-ethiopia-sat-between-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277299","title":{"rendered":"TRT World said Abiy\u2019s Ethiopia sat between the best of times and the worst of times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 TRT World published a magazine feature arguing that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s young reformist leadership faced rising ethnic tensions even as newly freer media and politics opened space.<\/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=\"TRT World said Abiy\u2019s Ethiopia sat between the best of times and the worst of times\" \/>\n<p>The piece described a country that looked hopeful to outsiders after peace with Eritrea and prisoner releases, while local conflicts and identity politics kept producing displacement and fear.<\/p>\n<p>That split\u2014international praise versus domestic fracture\u2014became a stock frame for Ethiopia coverage in 2018\u201319, and TRT\u2019s essay is one dated example.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics analysis archive, the best-and-worst framing marks how foreign broadcasters explained Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/magazine\/ethiopia-today-between-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times-26936\">TRT World<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia today: Between the best of times and the worst of times&nbsp;&nbsp;TRT WorldThe young and reformist leadership of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is facing the challenge of growing ethnic tensions, while the country&#8217;s newly free media is &#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-277299","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-1a8z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277299","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=277299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754949,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277299\/revisions\/754949"}],"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=277299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}