{"id":291559,"date":"2019-03-21T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=68f802e09bde6bfc0d60caea7605853c"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:00","slug":"ethiopia-in-upheaval-a-country-remaking-itself-after-years-of-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/291559","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia in upheaval: a country remaking itself after years of strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By early 2019, international broadcasters were framing <strong>Ethiopia<\/strong> as a country in upheaval: a reform opening after years of protest and emergency rule, paired with unresolved ethnic conflict, fragile institutions, and a public still deciding whether the change would stick.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-244316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PM-Abiy-Ahmed-unveild-a-new-cabinet.jpg?fit=780%2C423&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia in upheaval: a country remaking itself after years of strain\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Welle\u2019s German-language feature <em>\u00c4thiopien: Land im Umbruch<\/em> sat in that wave of reporting. It treated Ethiopia not as a finished success story but as a society mid-transition\u2014new faces in Addis Ababa, old grievances in the regions, and a diplomacy reset with neighbors that had not yet hardened into durable peace architectures.<\/p>\n<p>For Horn and Red Sea readers, the value of that moment is documentary. It captures the expectations around Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s first year before later wars and recentralization debates rewrote the narrative. The \u201cland in upheaval\u201d framing remains a useful baseline for measuring what opened, what closed, and what never got solved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/de\/%C3%A4thiopien-land-im-umbruch\/av-48004368\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ethiopia\/t-17474325\">Deutsche Welle English Ethiopia coverage<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c4thiopien: Land im Umbruch&nbsp;&nbsp;Deutsche Welle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":244316,"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-291559","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\/2018\/10\/PM-Abiy-Ahmed-unveild-a-new-cabinet.jpg?fit=1082%2C586&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1dQz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291559","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=291559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600503,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291559\/revisions\/600503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}