{"id":278205,"date":"2019-06-06T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMicWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV0aGlvcGlhb2JzZXJ2ZXIuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMDYvYW4tZXRoaW9waWFuLWpvdXJuYWxpc3Qtd2hvLXRyYXZlbGxlZC10by1jYW5hZGEtZm9yLXdvcmstZGlzYXBwZWFyZWQv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:22","slug":"ebc-journalist-getachew-chane-disappeared-after-traveling-to-canada-with-president-sahle-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278205","title":{"rendered":"EBC journalist Getachew Chane disappeared after traveling to Canada with President Sahle-Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Ethiopia Observer reported that Getachew Chane, a senior Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation journalist who traveled to Vancouver with President Sahle-Work Zewde for the Women Deliver conference, had stopped appearing at events he was expected to cover after sending one arrival dispatch.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-597608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"EBC journalist Getachew Chane disappeared after traveling to Canada with President Sahle-Work\" \/>\n<p>Colleagues said he was planning to seek asylum in Canada. Getachew had headed EBC\u2019s documentary section and was known for narrating the controversial 2013 film Jihadawi Harekat, and he was the brother of Kebede Chane, then director general of the Refugee and Returnee Affairs Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as press and rights archive, the Observer report dates how a state-media journalist\u2019s disappearance abroad became a public story during Ethiopia\u2019s early reform years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopiaobserver.com\/2019\/06\/06\/an-ethiopian-journalist-who-travelled-to-canada-for-work-disappeared\/\">Ethiopia Observer<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ethiopian journalist who travelled to Canada for work disappeared&nbsp;&nbsp;Ethiopia ObserverA senior journalist for the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), Getachew Chane who has travelled to Canada with President Sahle-Work Zewde has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":597608,"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-278205","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\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1anb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278205","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=278205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755064,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278205\/revisions\/755064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}