{"id":129432,"date":"2019-06-23T23:04:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T22:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129432"},"modified":"2019-06-23T23:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T22:22:54","slug":"ethiopian-chief-of-army-staff-shot-dead-by-own-bodyguard-in-coup-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129432","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Chief Of Army Staff Shot Dead By Own Bodyguard In Coup Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UPDATE-Ethiopian-Chief-Of-Army-Staff-Shot-Dead-By-Own-Bodyguard-In-Coup-Attempt.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seare Mekonnen, the chief of staff of the Ethiopian army has been killed by his own bodyguard in the capital, Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>He died and trying to prevent a coup attempt against the administration in Ethiopia&#8217;s northern Amhara region, alongside another officer.<\/p>\n<p>The coup plotters also succeeded in killing regional governor of Amhara, Ambachew Mekonnen and his adviser.<\/p>\n<p>The government says the situation is under control after arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Abiy Ajmed has gone on TV to urge Ethiopians to unite in the face of &#8220;evil&#8221; forces set on dividing the country.\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seare Mekonnen, the chief of staff of the Ethiopian army has been killed by his own bodyguard in the capital, Addis Ababa. He died and trying to prevent a coup attempt against the administration in Ethiopia&#8217;s northern Amhara region, alongside another officer. The coup plotters also succeeded in killing regional governor of Amhara, Ambachew Mekonnen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}