{"id":277303,"date":"2019-05-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEAVvdixUAgqEHfdfIQugy8kqFQgEKg0IACoGCAowrNYCMIB2MIGDCg?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:27:24","slug":"the-elders-welcomed-abiys-reforms-and-urged-full-respect-for-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277303","title":{"rendered":"The Elders welcomed Abiy\u2019s reforms and urged full respect for the rule of law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Elders welcomed the wide-ranging reforms introduced under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and called on Ethiopian leaders to uphold the rule of law as politics opened.<\/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=\"The Elders welcomed Abiy\u2019s reforms and urged full respect for the rule of law\" \/>\n<p>The group, founded by Nelson Mandela, framed reform as unfinished if courts, rights, and peaceful contestation did not keep pace with releases of prisoners and freer speech.<\/p>\n<p>International elder diplomacy often sounds soft, yet it left a public checkpoint on how outside mediators judged Ethiopia\u2019s transition before later violence.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, The Elders\u2019 statement dates a rights-minded welcome that already insisted on legal limits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.looktothestars.org\/news\/19036-the-elders-welcome-ethiopias-political-reforms\">The Elders \/ Look to the Stars<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elders Welcome Ethiopia&#8217;s Political Reforms and Urge Full Respect for Rule of Law&nbsp;&nbsp;Look to the StarsThe Elders welcomed the wide-ranging reforms in Ethiopia introduced by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and called on all leaders in the country &#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-277303","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-1a8D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277303","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=277303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754947,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277303\/revisions\/754947"}],"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=277303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}