{"id":277868,"date":"2020-11-04T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=277868"},"modified":"2020-11-04T17:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:40:13","slug":"ethiopia-declares-state-of-emergency-in-northern-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=277868","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia declares state of emergency in northern region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1487984\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"65.638051044084\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1487985 jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"Ethiopia declares state of emergency in northern region\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map-ethiopia.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map-ethiopia.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map-ethiopia.png?resize=107%2C107&amp;ssl=1 107w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map-ethiopia.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map-ethiopia.png?resize=58%2C58&amp;ssl=1 58w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map-ethiopia.png?resize=194%2C194&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map-ethiopia.png?resize=130%2C130&amp;ssl=1 130w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map-ethiopia.png?w=1275&amp;ssl=1 1275w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map-ethiopia-300x300.png?resize=600%2C600&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\"><br \/>\nThe Ethiopia Council of Ministers on Wednesday declared a six-month state of emergency in the country\u2019s northern Tigray regional state.<br \/>\n<!-- --><br \/>\nThe decision was made to maintain the country\u2019s peace, the safety and security of its citizens and to prevent acts that may lead to further unrest and instability, the council said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u201cThe council of ministers has decreed the state of emergency recognising that illegal and violent activities within the National Regional State of Tigray are endangering the constitution.<br \/>\n\u201c It is also endangering constitutional order, public peace and security, especially threatening the country\u2019s sovereignty, seriously impeding the Federal Government from discharging its constitutional responsibility in the Region, violating decisions of the House of Federation<br \/>\n\u201cWe have to understand that this situation has reached a level where it cannot be prevented and controlled through the regular law enforcement mechanism,\u2019\u2019 the statement said.<br \/>\nA State of Emergency Task Force in Ethiopia, led by the chief of staff of the armed forces and composed of representatives from \u201cpertinent institutions\u2019\u2019 and accountable to the prime minister, has been established, the statement said.<br \/>\nThe move came after rising tension in recent weeks between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s Prosperity Party and the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front, with each side accusing the other of trying to destabilize the country.<br \/>\nEarlier, Ahmed ordered military operations in Tigray in response to deadly attacks by traitorous force on Ethiopian Defence Force personnel stationed in the region.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopia Council of Ministers on Wednesday declared a six-month state of emergency in the country\u2019s northern Tigray regional state. The decision was made to maintain the country\u2019s peace, the safety and security of its citizens and to prevent acts that may lead to further unrest and instability, the council said in a statement. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277869,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8198,2069],"class_list":["post-277868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abiy-ahmed","tag-ethiopia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277868","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=277868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}