{"id":279314,"date":"2019-06-18T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiV2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmNmci5vcmcvYmxvZy91cy1zaG91bGQtYWNrbm93bGVkZ2UtY3JpdGljYWwtY2hhbGxlbmdlcy1ldGhpb3BpYXMtdHJhbnNpdGlvbtIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:31","slug":"cfrs-michelle-gavin-said-the-us-should-face-ethiopias-hard-transition-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279314","title":{"rendered":"CFR\u2019s Michelle Gavin said the US should face Ethiopia\u2019s hard transition challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 June 2019 the Council on Foreign Relations published Michelle Gavin\u2019s Africa in Transition note arguing that praise for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s opening should not hide urgent risks in Ethiopia\u2019s transition.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466807\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Abiy-Ahmeds-Expansionist-Goals-Pose-Risks-to-Africa-and-Global-Stability.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CFR\u2019s Michelle Gavin said the US should face Ethiopia\u2019s hard transition challenges\" \/>\n<p>Gavin pointed to communal violence after the \u201cpressure cooker\u201d lid was lifted, millions of internally displaced people, forced-return worries, and the chance that 2020 elections could become a flashpoint without deeper institutional support.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics-analysis archive, the CFR blog dates a mid-2019 US policy reading of Ethiopia\u2019s reform risks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/blog\/us-should-acknowledge-critical-challenges-ethiopias-transition\">Council on Foreign Relations<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Should Acknowledge Critical Challenges for Ethiopia&#8217;s Transition&nbsp;&nbsp;Council on Foreign RelationsAnyone fishing for a good news story out of Africa recently has, rightly, celebrated Ethiopia, where dynamic young Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466807,"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-279314","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\/11\/Abiy-Ahmeds-Expansionist-Goals-Pose-Risks-to-Africa-and-Global-Stability.jpg?fit=275%2C183&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aF4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279314","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=279314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755267,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279314\/revisions\/755267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}