{"id":18048,"date":"2021-06-21T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/06\/21\/ethiopia-elections-pm-abiy-ahmed-faces-first-vote-amid-conflict\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:05:07","slug":"ethiopia-elections-pm-abiy-ahmed-faces-first-vote-amid-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/06\/21\/ethiopia-elections-pm-abiy-ahmed-faces-first-vote-amid-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia elections: PM Abiy Ahmed faces first vote amid conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This Monday&rsquo;s elections\u00a0in Ethiopia should be a triumph of democracy, but major problems\u00a0\u2013 not least a war in the country&rsquo;s Tigray region\u00a0\u2013 are casting a dark cloud.\u00a0Human rights groups are disappointed with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed after what was seen as a promising start to his mandate in 2018.\u00a0He was\u00a0credited with freeing political prisoners, putting women into high office and\u00a0allowing more media freedom.\u00a0But now jailings have increased and the war overshadows everything.\u00a0We speak to\u00a0Martin Plaut, a journalist\u00a0and senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday&rsquo;s elections\u00a0in Ethiopia should be a triumph of democracy, but major problems\u00a0\u2013 not least a war in the country&rsquo;s Tigray region\u00a0\u2013 are casting a dark cloud.\u00a0Human rights groups are disappointed with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed after what was seen as a promising start to his mandate in 2018.\u00a0He was\u00a0credited with freeing political prisoners, putting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-18048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}