{"id":278511,"date":"2019-06-10T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T04:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiW2h0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wOS9ldGhpb3BpYXMtdW5pdmVyc2l0aWVzLXR1cm5pbmctaW50by1ldGhuaWMtdmlvbGVuY2UtZ3JvdW5kcy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:25","slug":"borkena-warned-that-ethiopian-universities-were-becoming-grounds-for-ethnic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278511","title":{"rendered":"Borkena warned that Ethiopian universities were becoming grounds for ethnic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Borkena reported that Ethiopian universities were turning into places where ethnic-based violence was becoming entrenched instead of serving as shared socializing grounds for students from across the country.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-501854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Borkena warned that Ethiopian universities were becoming grounds for ethnic violence\" \/>\n<p>Campus clashes and ethnic student conflicts had already forced closures and transfers in several regions, so the warning mattered for readers who track how national politics spills into higher education.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as education and security archive, the Borkena piece dates the mid-2019 alarm that universities were absorbing Ethiopia\u2019s ethnic conflict.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/09\/ethiopias-universities-turning-into-ethnic-violence-grounds\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Universities turning into ethnic violence grounds&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comEthiopian Universities are becoming places where ethnic-based violence are being entrenched rather than socializing grounds for students from across the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":501854,"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-278511","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\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=966%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1as7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278511","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=278511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755087,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278511\/revisions\/755087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}