{"id":277771,"date":"2019-06-01T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiX2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdW5pZGVudGlmaWVkLWd1bm1lbi1hdHRhY2stZ29sZC1leHBsb3JhdGlvbi1jb21wYW550gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:18:42","slug":"gunmen-attacked-kefi-minerals-gold-exploration-site-in-west-wellega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277771","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen attacked Kefi Minerals\u2019 gold exploration site in West Wellega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 The Reporter Ethiopia reported that unidentified gunmen attacked Kefi Minerals\u2019 gold exploration and development project at Tullu Kapi in West Wellega Zone.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gunmen attacked Kefi Minerals\u2019 gold exploration site in West Wellega\" \/>\n<p>Mining projects in western Oromia already sat inside a wider security map of armed groups and communal tension, so an attack on a UK-linked explorer quickly became both a business and a politics story.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as security and mining archive, the Reporter dispatch dates violence against extractive investment in Wellega.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/unidentified-gunmen-attack-gold-exploration-company\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified gunmen attack gold exploration company&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaKefi Mineral&#8217;s Plc, a UK gold exploration and development company, involved in gold mining development project located in West Wellega Zone, Tullu Kepi &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"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-277771","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\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1agb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277771","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=277771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754999,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277771\/revisions\/754999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}