{"id":427290,"date":"2018-11-02T02:54:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T07:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiMWh0dHBzOi8vbW9uZGVkaXBsby5jb20vMjAxOC8xMS8xMGV0aGlvcGlhLWVyaXRyZWHSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:37:29","slug":"ethiopia-and-eritrea-need-their-peace-gerard-prunier-on-a-fragile-thaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/427290","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia and Eritrea need their peace: G\u00e9rard Prunier on a fragile thaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historian and Horn analyst <strong>G\u00e9rard Prunier<\/strong>, writing in <em>Le Monde diplomatique<\/em>, argued that Ethiopia and Eritrea needed a real peace\u2014not only a ceremonial thaw\u2014after decades of militarized stalemate and regional proxy habits.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-290336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Isaias-Afwerki-and-Abiy-Ahmed.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia and Eritrea need their peace: G\u00e9rard Prunier on a fragile thaw\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>The essay\u2019s value is analytical rather than spot-news: it placed the 2018 opening against the long war, the unfinished border file, and the risk that personalities and short-term tactics would substitute for institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as a research\/opinion reference for readers who want more than wire headlines on why the Horn\u2019s \u201chistoric handshake\u201d was always fragile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mondediplo.com\/\">Le Monde diplomatique<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mondediplo.com\/2018\/11\/\">Le Monde diplomatique English<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia and Eritrea need their peace, by G\u00e9rard Prunier&nbsp;&nbsp;Le Monde diplomatique &#8211; English edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":290336,"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-427290","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\/10\/Isaias-Afwerki-and-Abiy-Ahmed.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1N9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427290","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=427290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599931,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427290\/revisions\/599931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}