{"id":277682,"date":"2019-05-31T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/stories\/CAAqOQgKIjNDQklTSURvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoTUtFUWlzaEpuN2pZQU1FYWc2NzFVeGhSZGZLQUFQAQ?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:18:14","slug":"africanews-said-ethiopia-was-cautioned-over-forced-returns-of-displaced-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277682","title":{"rendered":"Africanews said Ethiopia was cautioned over forced returns of displaced people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Africanews reported that Ethiopia was being cautioned over plans to send nearly three million people displaced by ethnic violence back to their home areas, while other outlets noted that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was pressing a rapid return program.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-458516\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Amhara-struggle.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Africanews said Ethiopia was cautioned over forced returns of displaced people\" \/>\n<p>Rights monitors and humanitarian agencies warned that returns without security and services could become forced displacement in reverse, especially where communities still feared attack.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as humanitarian and politics archive, the Africanews file dates the international caution around Abiy Ahmed\u2019s 2019 IDP return drive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/05\/31\/ethiopia-cautioned-over-forced-return-of-displaced-persons\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia cautioned over &#8216;forced return&#8217; of displaced persons&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews EnglishEthnic violence in Ethiopia has forced nearly 3 million people from their homes&nbsp;&nbsp;Los Angeles TimesEthiopia PM presses plan to return displaced people af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":458516,"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-277682","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\/08\/Amhara-struggle.jpg?fit=2700%2C1800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aeK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277682","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=277682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754992,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277682\/revisions\/754992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}