{"id":291675,"date":"2019-04-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=dfc1f62ef899d65c0d392d0646affc24"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:50","slug":"spiegel-abiy-ahmed-hugs-embraces-and-already-wages-war-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/291675","title":{"rendered":"SPIEGEL: Abiy Ahmed hugs, embraces, and already wages war at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 April 2019, DER SPIEGEL\u2019s Christoph Titz profiled Abiy Ahmed after one year in office: thousands of prisoners freed, corrupt officials purged, international celebrity, and still a country sliding toward wider internal war.<\/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=\"SPIEGEL: Abiy Ahmed hugs, embraces, and already wages war at home\" \/>\n<p>Titz spoke with former detainees like Solomon Kabede, Oromo exile-turned-Abiy companion Mohammed Ademo, Peace State Minister Seyoum Mesfin, and critic Eskinder Nega. The through-line was medemer hugs upstairs and militias, displacements, and quiet army operations downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Seyoum described flashpoints from Somali Region to Amhara\u2013Oromo lines and warned that Amhara and Tigray actors were training forces \u201cpractically on the threshold of war.\u201d Eskinder compared regional armies to a Yugoslav path and said the honeymoon had to end.<\/p>\n<p>Reading it after Tigray and Amhara wars, the SPIEGEL file is less prophecy than early diagnosis. Abiy Ahmed\u2019s charm offensive never cancelled the security machine. It only paused it while new conflicts gathered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/ausland\/aethiopiens-premier-abiy-ahmed-er-herzt-er-umarmt-und-er-fuehrt-krieg-a-1263585.html\">DER SPIEGEL<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c4thiopiens Premier Abiy Ahmed: Er herzt, er umarmt &#8211; und er f\u00fchrt Krieg&nbsp;&nbsp;SPIEGEL ONLINE<\/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-291675","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-1dSr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291675","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=291675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601461,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291675\/revisions\/601461"}],"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=291675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}