{"id":278321,"date":"2019-06-07T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/stories\/CAAqOQgKIjNDQklTSURvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoTUtFUWl0bUtEOWpZQU1FZmR5WDFpS3ZyUVVLQUFQAQ?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:38","slug":"abiy-ahmed-went-to-khartoum-to-mediate-between-sudans-military-and-opposition-after-deadly-crackdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278321","title":{"rendered":"Abiy Ahmed went to Khartoum to mediate between Sudan\u2019s military and opposition after deadly crackdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Africanews reported that Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed traveled to Sudan to try to mediate between the military council and opposition forces after security forces crushed protests in Khartoum and killed many civilians.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Abiy Ahmed went to Khartoum to mediate between Sudan\u2019s military and opposition after deadly crackdowns\" \/>\n<p>Sudan\u2019s opposition later set conditions around any Ethiopian-led talks, and several reporting strands followed arrests of opposition figures after meetings tied to the mediation effort, which made Abiy\u2019s shuttle a major Horn diplomacy story that week.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as geopolitics archive, the Africanews report dates Ethiopia\u2019s public attempt to broker a Sudan transition path in early June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/06\/07\/ethiopia-pm-in-sudan-to-mediate-between-military-opposition\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia PM in Sudan to mediate between military, opposition&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews EnglishEthiopian PM visits Sudan in bid to mediate crisis&nbsp;&nbsp;Washington PostSudan opposition says it accepts Ethiopia PM as mediator&nbsp;&nbsp;Al Jazeera Englis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"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-278321","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\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ap3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278321","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=278321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755071,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278321\/revisions\/755071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}