{"id":85993,"date":"2018-02-20T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/?guid=8f3da5e7ab50b4091cd79fd82a3abf92"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:39:55","slug":"us-government-condemns-state-of-emergency-in-ethiopia-as-political-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/85993","title":{"rendered":"US Government condemns state of emergency in Ethiopia as political crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ethiopia-protests.jpg?resize=780%2C440\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-77661\" \/><br \/>\nEthiopia, a key U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism in North Africa, is again on the brink of chaos following the outbreak of large-scale protests that erupted last week. The demonstrations prompted the government to declare a state of emergency and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn to submit his resignation amid the worst political crisis the country has faced in years.<br \/>\nThousands of Ethiopians have taken to the streets to protest exclusion from the country&#8217;s political system and economic growth. The government&#8217;s declaration of a state of emergency effectively bans protests, leading the U.S. Embassy to call for &#8220;greater freedom, not less.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The question is, whether the ruling party decides to bring in someone who is more capable of bringing people together &#8212; a more inclusive government &#8212; or doubles down under influence from the military and says, &#8216;No, let&#8217;s crack down even harder to solve this problem,'&#8221; Alex Kliment of GZERO Media told CBSN in an interview. &#8220;They&#8217;ve been cracking down for three years, and it has only gotten worse.&#8221; [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-condemns-crackdown-in-ethiopia-as-political-crisis-deepens\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia, a key U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism in North Africa, is again on the brink of chaos following the outbreak of large-scale protests that erupted last week. The demonstrations prompted the government to declare a state of emergency and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn to submit his resignation amid the worst political crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2991],"class_list":["post-85993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-mmZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85993","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264025,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85993\/revisions\/264025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}