{"id":455557,"date":"2023-07-21T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=455557"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:22:53","slug":"curfew-imposed-in-an-ethiopia-regional-capital-for-second-time-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/455557","title":{"rendered":"Curfew imposed in an Ethiopia regional capital for second time in a year\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A curfew has been imposed in Gambella city, capital of Ethiopia\u2019s western Gambella region, local officials stated on Wednesday evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a Facebook post, Gambella Region Administration Press Secretariat Office, said a curfew has been imposed in the city because of recent security problems in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post didn\u2019t specifically mention the types of security problems that caused the declaration of curfew in the western Ethiopia city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The statement said any form of vehicular and pedestrian movements in Gambella city with exception of security forces are banned from 7 p.m. in the evening to 6 a.m. in the morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The statement further said any persons outside of security forces are banned from moving around in the city with any types of weapons in their possession.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June 2022, the Gambella region administration imposed a night time curfew in Gambella city in the aftermath of a deadly attack by a combined force of Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and Gambella Liberation Front (GLF) fighters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The curfew was lifted a month later, after authorities claimed relative peace had resumed in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curfew has been imposed in Gambella city, capital of Ethiopia\u2019s western Gambella region, local officials stated on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 In a Facebook post, Gambella Region Administration Press Secretariat Office, said a curfew has been imposed in the city because of recent security problems in the region.\u00a0 The post didn\u2019t specifically mention the types of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":455558,"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":[8,4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-455557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ga.jpg?fit=1052%2C491&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1UvH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455557","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=455557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455559,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455557\/revisions\/455559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}