{"id":20404,"date":"2020-12-14T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=20404"},"modified":"2020-12-14T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:22:33","slug":"ethiopia-pm-visits-tigray-capital-after-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/14\/ethiopia-pm-visits-tigray-capital-after-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia PM Visits Tigray Capital After Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prime minister of Ethiopia has visited Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, for the first time since he ordered a military offensive against the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abiy Ahmed attended the first meeting of a new regional council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;d earlier hosted talks with the prime minister of Sudan, to where 50,000 Tigrayan refugees have fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Sudanese official said Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was prepared to mediate in the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a statement by Mr Abiy made no mention of any such offer &#8211; though it said the Sudanese delegation had backed his actions in Tigray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports say Mr Hamdok has returned home early from what Ethiopia said would be a two-day trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ethiopian prime minister has tweeted photos of his visit to Mekelle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AbiyAhmedAli\/status\/1338179108581335041?s=20\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em> BBC News Africa <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister of Ethiopia has visited Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, for the first time since he ordered a military offensive against the region. Abiy Ahmed attended the first meeting of a new regional council. He&#8217;d earlier hosted talks with the prime minister of Sudan, to where 50,000 Tigrayan refugees have fled. A Sudanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":20405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20409,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404\/revisions\/20409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}