{"id":305590,"date":"2018-10-25T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEBsf6nJJUq2SI-7ttd_B1A4qFggEKg4IACoGCAow9vBNMK3UCDCvpUk?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:36:59","slug":"sahle-work-zewde-elected-ethiopias-first-woman-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/305590","title":{"rendered":"Sahle-Work Zewde elected: Ethiopia\u2019s first woman president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 October 2018, parliament elected diplomat <strong>Sahle-Work Zewde<\/strong> as president of Ethiopia\u2014the first woman to hold the largely ceremonial but nationally symbolic head-of-state office.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-246384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ambassador-Sahlework-Zewdie-elected-President-of-Ethiopia-by-Parliament.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sahle-Work Zewde elected: Ethiopia\u2019s first woman president\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>NPR and other outlets sketched her UN and ambassadorial career and the politics of the appointment during Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform period. The presidency in Ethiopia does not run day-to-day government, but the choice signaled a public break with the old boys\u2019 club image of federal institutions.<\/p>\n<p>For lasting reference: Sahle-Work\u2019s election sits alongside the 2018 gender-parity cabinet as a milestone in Ethiopian political representation, separate from later crises that tested how deep institutional reform really went.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/10\/25\/660618139\/ethiopia-gets-its-1st-female-president\">NPR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-45977227\">BBC<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia Gets Its 1st Female President&nbsp;&nbsp;NPR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":246384,"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-305590","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\/Ambassador-Sahlework-Zewdie-elected-President-of-Ethiopia-by-Parliament.jpg?fit=975%2C611&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1huS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305590","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=305590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599922,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305590\/revisions\/599922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}