{"id":279028,"date":"2019-06-15T14:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T18:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiiwFodHRwczovL2JvcmtlbmEuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMTUvZGVzc2llLXJlc2lkZW50cy10b2xkLXBtLWNvbnN0aXR1dGlvbi1vcGVuZWQtdGhlLWRvb3ItZm9yLXRoZS1kaXNpbnRlZ3JhdGlvbi1vZi1ldGhpb3BpYS1uZWVkLXRvLWJlLWFtZW5kZWQv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:08","slug":"dessie-residents-told-abiy-ahmed-the-constitution-opened-a-path-toward-ethiopias-breakup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279028","title":{"rendered":"Dessie residents told Abiy Ahmed the constitution opened a path toward Ethiopia\u2019s breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 June 2019 Borkena reported that residents of Dessie, meeting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, said the federal constitution had opened the door to Ethiopia\u2019s disintegration and needed amendment.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601434\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amhara-lalibela-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dessie residents told Abiy Ahmed the constitution opened a path toward Ethiopia\u2019s breakup\" \/>\n<p>The town-hall summary recorded public pressure on constitutional design alongside other local grievances during the prime minister\u2019s Amhara Region visit.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, the Borkena report dates the Dessie constitutional complaint to Abiy Ahmed in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/15\/dessie-residents-told-pm-constitution-opened-the-door-for-the-disintegration-of-ethiopia-need-to-be-amended\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dessie told PM :&#8221;Constitution opened door for disintegration of Ethiopia,need to be amended&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comResidents of Dessie held discussion with PM Abiy Ahmed. He is told that the constitution opened way for the disintegration of Ethiopia. R&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601434,"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-279028","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\/amhara-lalibela-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aAs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279028","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=279028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755234,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279028\/revisions\/755234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}