{"id":279479,"date":"2019-06-19T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T18:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiX2h0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xOS9jYW5hZGlhbi1hbWJhc3NhZG9yLXRvLWV0aGlvcGlhLWNoZXZyaWVyLWludGVydmlldy13aXRoLWJvcmtlbmEv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:17:07","slug":"borkena-interviewed-canadian-ambassador-antoine-chevrier-on-ethiopias-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279479","title":{"rendered":"Borkena interviewed Canadian ambassador Antoine Chevrier on Ethiopia\u2019s reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 June 2019 Borkena published an interview with Antoine Chevrier, Canada\u2019s ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti, and the African Union, about reform in Ethiopia and Canada\u2019s engagement with the process.<\/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=\"Borkena interviewed Canadian ambassador Antoine Chevrier on Ethiopia\u2019s reforms\" \/>\n<p>The conversation covered how Ottawa viewed political opening, development cooperation, and regional diplomacy during Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform years.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as diplomacy archive, the Borkena interview dates a mid-2019 Canadian embassy reading of Ethiopia\u2019s transition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/19\/canadian-ambassador-to-ethiopia-chevrier-interview-with-borkena\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Ambassador to Ethiopia,Antoine Chevrier,interview with Borkena&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comBorkena interviewed Canadian Ambassador to Ethiopia,Djibouti &amp;The African Union,Honourable Antoine Chevrier about reform in Ethiopia, and Canada&#8217;s &#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-279479","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-1aHJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279479","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=279479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755281,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279479\/revisions\/755281"}],"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=279479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}