{"id":357349,"date":"2021-05-06T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=357349"},"modified":"2021-05-07T00:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T04:09:36","slug":"more-than-77000-displaced-people-from-metekel-zone-rejected-governments-plan-to-relocate-them-in-amhara-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/357349","title":{"rendered":"More than 77,000 displaced people from Metekel Zone rejected government\u2019s plan to relocate them in Amhara region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 77,000 ethnic Amhara people, who were displaced from Metekel Zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State in ethnically motivated attacks, rejected the government\u2019s plan to relocate them in west Gojam, South Gonder and Awi zones in Amhara Regional State.<\/p>\n<p>In a discussion they held with high level officials of the Amhara Regional State, the displaced people asserted that they want to return to the Metekel Zone and rejected the government\u2019s proposal to dwell in other places. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThey said the government has failed to return them to the Metekel Zone as opposed to its pledge to return them in three months, Mayor of the Chagni Demissew Yismaw told Ethio-FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere could be security challenges in Chagni town where the displaced people are sheltered,\u201d the mayor warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 77,000 ethnic Amhara people, who were displaced from Metekel Zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State in ethnically motivated attacks, rejected the government\u2019s plan to relocate them in west Gojam, South Gonder and Awi zones in Amhara Regional State. In a discussion they held with high level officials of the Amhara Regional State, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":357350,"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-357349","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\/05\/Chagni.jpg?fit=700%2C394&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1uXH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357349","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=357349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357389,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357349\/revisions\/357389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}