{"id":294306,"date":"2019-11-18T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEA0gru5e8pWi82VFA05W9vwqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzww5oEY?oc=5"},"modified":"2019-11-19T06:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:17:59","slug":"ethiopias-leader-faces-anger-and-a-challenger-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/294306","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;s leader faces anger, and a challenger &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won this year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize, now faces an influential competitor \u2014 Jawar Mohammed, the founder of a media network and a former ally. His efforts to reform the country have empowered the opposition \u2014 including Mr. Jawar and his followers \u2014 and set loose \u201ccentrifugal forces from the inside,\u201d said Tobias Hagmann, a political scientist and expert on Ethiopia at Roskilde University in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has all this discourse about national unity, reconciliation and forgiveness, but at the same time, things are happening in the streets, and politics is up for grabs,\u201d Mr. Hagmann said. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/18\/world\/africa\/ethiopia-jawar-mohammed-abiy-ahmed.html\" >CONTINUE READING<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a Massacre, Ethiopia\u2019s Leader Faces Anger, and a Challenger&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291045,"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-294306","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\/10\/70282485760_n.jpg?fit=1142%2C641&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1eyS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294306","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294375,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294306\/revisions\/294375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}