{"id":279177,"date":"2019-06-17T23:16:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T03:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiggFodHRwczovL2JvcmtlbmEuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMTcvZmFjdHMtd2h5LWV0aGlvcGlhLWRvZXMtbm90LWZpdC10aGUtZmFpbGVkLXN0YXRlLXN0YXR1cy1yZXNwb25zZS10by1tYWpvci1kYXdpdC13b2xkZWdpb3JnaXMtZmluYWwv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:17","slug":"tibebe-samuel-ferenji-argued-ethiopia-still-did-not-fit-failed-state-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279177","title":{"rendered":"Tibebe Samuel Ferenji argued Ethiopia still did not fit \u201cfailed state\u201d status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 June 2019 Borkena carried the final part of Tibebe Samuel Ferenji\u2019s response to Major Dawit Woldegiorgis, arguing that Ethiopia did not fit the label of a failed state.<\/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=\"Tibebe Samuel Ferenji argued Ethiopia still did not fit \u201cfailed state\u201d status\" \/>\n<p>The essay pressed institutional, historical, and social facts against collapse rhetoric while acknowledging serious security and governance strains in the reform period.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics-analysis archive, the Borkena finale dates a mid-2019 diaspora debate over whether Ethiopia had crossed into state failure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/17\/facts-why-ethiopia-does-not-fit-the-failed-state-status-response-to-major-dawit-woldegiorgis-final\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final : Facts why Ethiopia does not fit \u201cThe Failed State\u201d Status Response to Major Dawit Woldegiorgis&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comTibebe Samuel Ferenji has been arguing that Ethiopia does not fit the status of failed state and this is the final part of his &#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-279177","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-1aCR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279177","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=279177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755261,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279177\/revisions\/755261"}],"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=279177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}