{"id":295155,"date":"2019-04-04T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=4a6e7e24b9da74faca0340b2465b000f"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:10","slug":"a-new-model-state-in-africa-outside-views-of-ethiopias-reform-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/295155","title":{"rendered":"A new model state in Africa? Outside views of Ethiopia\u2019s reform moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss daily <em>Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung<\/em> asked in 2019 whether Ethiopia under Abiy Ahmed was becoming a new <strong>model state<\/strong> in Africa\u2014or whether the praise from abroad was racing ahead of the country\u2019s conflict and governance realities.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-264152\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ethiopian-Prime-Minister-Abiy-Ahmed-signs-a-peace-accord-with-Eritrea.-Image-Saudi-Press-Agency-via-AP-1.jpg?fit=595%2C445&ssl=1\" alt=\"A new model state in Africa? Outside views of Ethiopia\u2019s reform moment\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Model-state talk is a recurring foreign-policy habit around Ethiopia: rapid growth narratives in the late EPRDF years, then reform-darling coverage in 2018\u201319. Each wave left behind useful questions about evidence versus branding.<\/p>\n<p>For Horn readers, the NZZ frame is less about Swiss opinion and more about how international capital, diaspora politics, and domestic power struggles feed on each other\u2019s stories. A \u201cmodel\u201d that cannot secure peace or accountable federal bargains is a story that collapses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/globalrisk\/aethiopien-abiy-ahmed-musterstaat-ld.1472705\">Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c4thiopien: Ein neuer Musterstaat in Afrika?&nbsp;&nbsp;Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":264152,"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-295155","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\/02\/Ethiopian-Prime-Minister-Abiy-Ahmed-signs-a-peace-accord-with-Eritrea.-Image-Saudi-Press-Agency-via-AP-1.jpg?fit=595%2C445&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1eMz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295155","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=295155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600507,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295155\/revisions\/600507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}