{"id":60235,"date":"2020-01-29T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60235"},"modified":"2020-01-29T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:04:25","slug":"mass-ethiopia-protests-over-abducted-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60235","title":{"rendered":"Mass Ethiopia protests over abducted students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Mass-Ethiopia-protests-over-abducted-students-850744?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/306\/30673640.295.jpg\" alt=\"Many protesters took to the streets of Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara region\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Many protesters took to the streets of Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara region<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADDIS ABABA, Jan 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Demonstrations have taken place across northern Ethiopia about the failure of the authorities to find a group of 27 students abducted 50 days ago.<br><br>The students &#8211; from the Amhara community &#8211; were kidnapped as they fled an outbreak of ethnic violence at Dembi Dolo University in the Oromia region.<br><br>It is not clear who is behind the abduction of the students, believed to be mainly young women, but local officials say armed men are active in the area.<br><br>Tens of thousands took to the streets on Tuesdayacross the northern Amhara region, following an intensive social media campaign.<br><br>They chanted anti-government slogans, accusing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of not doing enough to secure the students\u2019 release.<br><br>It comes more than two weeks after the authorities said they had secured the release of 21 students, but their families say nothing has been heard from them. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many protesters took to the streets of Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara region ADDIS ABABA, Jan 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Demonstrations have taken place across northern Ethiopia about the failure of the authorities to find a group of 27 students abducted 50 days ago. The students &#8211; from the Amhara community &#8211; were kidnapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}