{"id":2134,"date":"2022-02-16T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T09:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2022-02-16T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T09:58:47","slug":"ethiopia-parliament-votes-to-lift-state-of-emergency-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/2134\/ethiopia-parliament-votes-to-lift-state-of-emergency-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia parliament votes to lift state of emergency early"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethiopia’s parliament on Tuesday approved an early end to a\u00a0six-month state of emergency, which was imposed in early November as Tigray forces fighting<\/a> the Ethiopian government and their allies advanced towards the capital Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n

The move follows a\u00a0proposal by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Cabinet last month to end the emergency period, as the Tigrayan forces have since\u00a0withdrawn to their stronghold\u00a0in the country’s north.<\/p>\n

Parliament\u00a0speaker Tagesse Chafo said officials can now use regular law to deal with the country’s security threats.<\/p>\n

Tesfaye Beljige, chief government whip, said the the\u00a0emergency measures\u00a0were restricting tourism and economic activities. It was “causing more damage” than\u00a0benefits,\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n

Thousands of mainly ethnic Tigrayans were\u00a0detained under the state of emergency, but many were released after December’s downturn in fighting.\u00a0It wasn’t clear if the government would release the rest of the detainees.<\/p>\n

Fighting broke out in Tigray in November 2020 after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops to topple the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the region’s former ruling party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethiopia’s parliament on Tuesday approved an early end to a\u00a0six-month state of emergency, which was imposed in early November as Tigray forces fighting the Ethiopian government and their allies advanced towards the capital Addis Ababa. The move follows a\u00a0proposal by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Cabinet last month to end the emergency period, as the Tigrayan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"AFP, AP, Reuters","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,33,34],"tags":[124,372,370,371],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-politics","category-society","tag-abiy-ahmed","tag-addis-ababa","tag-ethiopias-parliament","tag-tigray-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}