{"id":277804,"date":"2019-06-02T00:41:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T04:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiWmh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMS9uby13YXktdG8tbWFrZS1hc3NhYi1wYXJ0LW9mLWV0aGlvcGlhLXNheXMtYS1sZWdhbC1zY2hvbGFyL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:19:09","slug":"a-legal-scholar-said-there-was-no-lawful-way-to-make-assab-part-of-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277804","title":{"rendered":"A legal scholar said there was no lawful way to make Assab part of Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Borkena reported that Addis Ababa University legal scholar Dereje Zeleke argued there was no legal ground to make Eritrea\u2019s Assab port part of Ethiopia, and that mobilizing the public around Assab claims looked like a political plot.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-420569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A legal scholar said there was no lawful way to make Assab part of Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>Assab talk revived after the 2018 Ethiopia\u2013Eritrea rapprochement, because landlocked Ethiopia still depended on Djibouti while nationalists debated Red Sea access.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as Horn geopolitics archive, the scholar\u2019s warning dates early pushback against port-irredentist rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/01\/no-way-to-make-assab-part-of-ethiopia-says-a-legal-scholar\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No way to make Assab part of Ethiopia,&#8221; says a legal scholar&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comDereje Zeleke, a legal scholar at Addis Ababa University, tend to see propensity to mobilize Ethiopians on the issue of Assab as a plot. He says &#8220;no legal ground &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":420569,"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-277804","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\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=650%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1agI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277804","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=277804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755007,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277804\/revisions\/755007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}