{"id":278549,"date":"2019-06-10T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMTAvZXRoaW9waWEtcG0taW4tdGlncmF5LXJlZ2lvbi1qb2lucy1lZmZvcnRzLXRvLXNhdmUtYXh1bS1vYmVsaXNrL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:37","slug":"abiy-ahmed-visited-tigray-and-joined-efforts-to-preserve-parts-of-an-axum-obelisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278549","title":{"rendered":"Abiy Ahmed visited Tigray and joined efforts to preserve parts of an Axum obelisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Africanews reported that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was in the Tigray Region and that one of his main engagements was reviewing efforts to save a historic obelisk in Axum together with his regional hosts.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-357178\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lalibela.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Abiy Ahmed visited Tigray and joined efforts to preserve parts of an Axum obelisk\" \/>\n<p>Heritage conservation around Axum\u2019s stelae sits next to politics in Tigray, so a prime-ministerial visit framed as cultural preservation also read as an attempt to show national care for a Tigrayan sacred city before later national rupture.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as heritage archive, the Africanews note dates Abiy\u2019s mid-2019 Axum obelisk preservation visit in Tigray.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/06\/10\/ethiopia-pm-in-tigray-region-joins-efforts-to-save-axum-obelisk\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia PM in Tigray region, moves to preserve portions of Axum obelisk&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews EnglishOne of his main engagements had to do with efforts aimed at saving a historic obelisk located in the city of Axum. Together with his host, they review&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":357178,"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-278549","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\/05\/Lalibela.jpg?fit=263%2C192&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1asJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278549","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=278549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755091,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278549\/revisions\/755091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}