{"id":279088,"date":"2019-06-17T13:19:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiU2h0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xNy9ldGhpb3BpYS1hLXRpbWUtZm9yLWEtbW90aGVyLWNhbGwtYXJheWEtZy10ZWtsZWFiaWIv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:06","slug":"araya-g-tekleabib-urged-ethiopians-to-hear-a-mother-call-amid-abiy-ahmeds-early-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279088","title":{"rendered":"Araya G. Tekleabib urged Ethiopians to hear a \u201cmother call\u201d amid Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 June 2019 Borkena published Araya G. Tekleabib\u2019s essay \u201cA Time for a mother call,\u201d which welcomed early changes under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed while warning that praise alone would not secure lasting reform.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Araya G. Tekleabib urged Ethiopians to hear a \u201cmother call\u201d amid Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reforms\" \/>\n<p>The writer argued that citizens still needed to speak plainly about unfinished work on rights, unity, and accountable government rather than treat the honeymoon period as finished business.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics-analysis archive, the Borkena essay dates a mid-2019 diaspora call for sustained civic pressure alongside the reform government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/17\/ethiopia-a-time-for-a-mother-call-araya-g-tekleabib\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia : A Time for a \u201cmother call\u201d (Araya G. Tekleabib)&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comThe witer, Araya G. Tekleabib, while noting the positive changes in Ethiopia under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed&#8217;s leadership,he says that we shouldn&#8217;t be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"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-279088","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\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aBq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279088","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=279088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755257,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279088\/revisions\/755257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}