{"id":356816,"date":"2021-04-28T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=356816"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:41:09","slug":"tigray-conflict-has-the-potential-to-spiral-into-a-full-fledged-regional-crisis-syria-will-look-like-childs-play-by-comparison-us-envoy-fp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/356816","title":{"rendered":"Tigray conflict has the potential to spiral into a full-fledged regional crisis; Syria will look like child\u2019s play by comparison &#8211; US Envoy &#8211; FP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Foreign Policy)The Biden administration this month brought Jeffrey Feltman, a seasoned former senior U.S. and United Nations diplomat, out of semi-retirement to assume the newly created role of special envoy for the Horn of Africa, where multiple crises threaten to unravel the entire region.<\/p>\n<p>Feltman, in his first interview since being tapped for the post, told Foreign Policy the conflict has the potential to spiral into a full-fledged regional crisis, citing a comparison to the war in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEthiopia has 110 million people,\u201d he said. \u201cIf the tensions in Ethiopia would result in a widespread civil conflict that goes beyond Tigray, Syria will look like child\u2019s play by comparison.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/04\/26\/u-s-africa-envoy-ethiopia-crisis-tigray-jeffrey-feltman-biden-diplomacy-horn-of-africa\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Foreign Policy)The Biden administration this month brought Jeffrey Feltman, a seasoned former senior U.S. and United Nations diplomat, out of semi-retirement to assume the newly created role of special envoy for the Horn of Africa, where multiple crises threaten to unravel the entire region. Feltman, in his first interview since being tapped for the post, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":356819,"comment_status":"open","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-356816","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\/2021\/04\/US-Envoy.jpg?fit=1500%2C998&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1uP6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356816","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356820,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356816\/revisions\/356820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}