<p><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-1435 alignleft" src="http://www.ethiopiahagere.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tibor-nagy.jpg" alt="tibor-nagy" width="280" height="179" />There has been considerable media coverage lately for a number of Ethiopian Olympic athletes who’ve publicly proclaimed their support for ongoing demonstrations against the Ethiopian government, and expressed fear that they may be harmed, or worse, if they now return home. The government responded by guaranteeing their safety and stating that all Ethiopians should be proud of the athletes’ achievements.</p>

<div class="post-teaser-block"><a href="https://www.ethiopiahagere.com/?p=1434" title="Permanent Link: Ethiopia at the crossroads with its government – Former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia" rel="bookmark">Read the full post </a></div>{"id":1434,"date":"2016-09-25T23:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T21:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2016-09-25T23:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T21:27:27","slug":"ethiopia-at-the-crossroads-with-its-government-former-u-s-ambassador-to-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia at the crossroads with its government \u2013 Former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1435 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tibor-nagy.jpg\" alt=\"tibor-nagy\" width=\"280\" height=\"179\" \/>There has been considerable media coverage lately for a number of Ethiopian Olympic athletes who\u2019ve publicly proclaimed their support for ongoing demonstrations against the Ethiopian government, and expressed fear that they may be harmed, or worse, if they now return home. The government responded by guaranteeing their safety and stating that all Ethiopians should be proud of the athletes\u2019 achievements.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/?p=1434\" title=\"Permanent Link: Ethiopia at the crossroads with its government \u2013 Former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post <\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}