{"id":446068,"date":"2023-05-13T04:13:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T08:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=446068"},"modified":"2023-05-13T04:13:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T08:13:43","slug":"another-ethiopia-government-official-gunned-down-third-such-killing-in-three-weeks-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/446068","title":{"rendered":"Another Ethiopia government official gunned down, third such killing in three weeks\u2019 period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Chief Administrator of 08 district in Kirkos sub-city of Addis Ababa city administration has become the third Ethiopia government official in three weeks\u2019 period to be gunned down, multiple reports indicate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Albachew Amogne, Chief Administrator of 08 district was gunned down in his office on Friday by a community police officer, Kirkos district announced in a statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The statement further said the murder suspect was arrested shortly after the killing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, Addis Ababa Police confirmed the Addis Ababa city official was killed by a community police officer over \u201cpersonal grievance issue\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A week ago, Umer Lema, Head of Ethiopia\u2019s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) Office in Resu- Hanruka district in Afar region was killed by unidentified gunmen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Umer was gunned down while he was traveling from Adama city to Awash area in the East-Shewa zone of Oromia region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PP Afar region office has referred to the attackers as \u201cterrorists\u201d but didn\u2019t give further information on their suspected identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last month, an attack by as of yet unidentified gunmen killed the Head of Prosperity Party (PP) in the Amhara region, Girma Yeshitila and four other people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chief Administrator of 08 district in Kirkos sub-city of Addis Ababa city administration has become the third Ethiopia government official in three weeks\u2019 period to be gunned down, multiple reports indicate.\u00a0 Albachew Amogne, Chief Administrator of 08 district was gunned down in his office on Friday by a community police officer, Kirkos district announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":446069,"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":[5845],"class_list":["post-446068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/346452692_259392249883152_3663697666926020356_n.jpg?fit=720%2C631&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1S2E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446068","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446070,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446068\/revisions\/446070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}