{"id":291710,"date":"2019-05-24T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=02fcbd8b234cd51a941cb90ffb0652e0"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:53:45","slug":"a-german-report-said-the-ethio-eritrean-peace-spring-was-already-ending-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/291710","title":{"rendered":"A German report said the Ethio\u2013Eritrean peace spring was already ending in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Deutsche Welle\u2019s German service reported that the euphoria after the July 2018 Ethio\u2013Eritrean peace deal was already fading, as Eritrea closed border crossings that had briefly reopened.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-420569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A German report said the Ethio\u2013Eritrean peace spring was already ending in 2019\" \/>\n<p>The article said Asmara began shutting gates from December 2018 and that by April 2019 all crossings were closed again, often without clear public reasons beyond vague legal talk on state media.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Eritrea framed the clampdown as orderly regulation, while critics said the government feared uncontrolled exits and political opening once people could move freely toward Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as Horn geopolitics archive, the DW file dates an early warning that the Abiy Ahmed\u2013Isaias Afwerki peace lacked a real implementation roadmap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/de\/ende-des-%C3%A4thiopisch-eritreischen-fr%C3%BChlings\/a-48551674\">Deutsche Welle (Deutsch)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ende des \u00e4thiopisch-eritreischen Fr\u00fchlings&nbsp;&nbsp;DW (Deutsch)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":420569,"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-291710","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\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=650%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1dT0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291710","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=291710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754899,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291710\/revisions\/754899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}