{"id":3288,"date":"2025-11-08T04:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimbabweunited.com\/media-center\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:38:03","slug":"eritrea-ethiopia-on-the-brink-of-war-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/eritrea-ethiopia-on-the-brink-of-war-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea &#038; Ethiopia on the Brink of War Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5LfQ12leDWw?si=XAPB8A2iG9m8Wbfy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few years ago, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President, Isaias Afwerki, were close political allies fighting together against the Tigrayan People\u2019s Liberation Front in northern Ethiopia.<br \/>\nThe two countries&#8217; historically strained ties  were restored in 2018, when the Ethiopian leader reopened the border, brokering peace with Asmara.<br \/>\nToday, however, Ethiopia\u2019s renewed ambitions about gaining access to the Red Sea opened a new rift between the two neighbours. Ethiopia is also accusing Eritrea of colluding with a banned Tigrayan faction to stoke war once again. Both nations are increasing their military deployment near the shared border, sparking concerns about the return to conflict.<br \/>\nWith the tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea mounting again, can they be pulled back from the brink? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-africa-united-news","category-the-news-makers","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}