{"id":12958,"date":"2021-11-05T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=12958"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T11:56:32","slug":"why-is-ethiopia-still-at-war-with-itself-bbc-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=12958","title":{"rendered":"Why is Ethiopia still at war with itself? &#8211; BBC Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When on 4 November 2020 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military offensive against regional forces in Tigray after an army base was seized by the rebels, he vowed the fighting would be over in weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year on and the conflict has not only escalated but it has spread across several regions. Ethiopia has now declared a nationwide state of emergency and asked citizens to pick up arms to defend Addis Ababa as rebel forces press south toward the capital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC Africa\u2019s Ashley Lime explains why Ethiopia is still at war with itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When on 4 November 2020 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military offensive against regional forces in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[220,32],"class_list":["post-12958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-bbc-africa","tag-english","post_format-post-format-video"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703.jpg",300,169,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703.jpg",1280,720,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703.jpg",825,464,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703.jpg",590,332,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703.jpg",600,338,false],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/703-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Axumawian Media"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?cat=5\" rel=\"category\">Video<\/a>","tag_info":"Video","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12960,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions\/12960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}