{"id":278575,"date":"2019-06-10T08:33:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=cf30c85cc091680515e1c09f39495813"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:43","slug":"the-east-african-said-ethnic-violence-was-the-dark-side-of-abiy-ahmeds-early-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278575","title":{"rendered":"The East African said ethnic violence was the dark side of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 The East African described ethnic tensions and displacement as the dark side of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s reform period, pointing to refugees who had fled fighting around places such as Shawa-Bare into camps like Sessi near Moyale in Kenya.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-458516\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Amhara-struggle.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The East African said ethnic violence was the dark side of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reforms\" \/>\n<p>The regional paper argued that political opening and peace diplomacy had not stopped local mass violence, cattle theft, and revenge cycles that pushed people across borders, which matched other mid-2019 reporting on rising misery inside Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, The East African feature dates the regional press verdict that ethnic conflict shadowed Abiy\u2019s early reform image.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Ethiopia-ethnic-tensions-dark-side-of-Abiy-reforms\/4552902-5151648-l9n3f7\/index.html\">The East African<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia ethnic tensions dark side of Abiy reforms&nbsp;&nbsp;The East AfricanSome of the refugees who fled violent conflict from Shawa-Bare in Ethiopia at Sessi Camp in Moyale, Marsabit County, Kenya on March 13, 2018. Victims of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":458516,"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-278575","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\/08\/Amhara-struggle.jpg?fit=2700%2C1800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1at9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278575","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=278575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755093,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278575\/revisions\/755093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}