{"id":304893,"date":"2019-04-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=0f000b4fad3a3516843497c15c503a45"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:02","slug":"abiy-ahmeds-first-year-ethiopias-radical-reformer-under-the-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/304893","title":{"rendered":"Abiy Ahmed\u2019s first year: Ethiopia\u2019s radical reformer under the microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after <strong>Abiy Ahmed<\/strong> became prime minister, German public broadcaster tagesschau joined a crowded international ledger asking whether Ethiopia\u2019s \u201cradical reformer\u201d had delivered lasting change or mainly a burst of symbolism.<\/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=\"Abiy Ahmed\u2019s first year: Ethiopia\u2019s radical reformer under the microscope\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first-year file still matters because it compressed so many turning points into twelve months: release of political prisoners, outreach to Eritrea, a more open press climate than the emergency years, and simultaneously rising ethnic violence, displacement, and questions about how far federal security doctrine had really shifted.<\/p>\n<p>Rewatching that anniversary coverage from later years is a reminder that early foreign praise and domestic euphoria were already contested by April 2019. The reform brand and the conflict map were diverging in real time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/ausland\/aethiopien-abiyahmed-101.html\">tagesschau.de<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/is-ethiopian-pm-abiys-reform-drive-running-out-of-steam\/a-48120788\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed ein Jahr im Amt: \u00c4thiopiens radikaler Reformer&nbsp;&nbsp;tagesschau.de<\/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-304893","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-1hjD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304893","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=304893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600504,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304893\/revisions\/600504"}],"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=304893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}