<p><em><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-1540 alignleft" src="http://www.ethiopiahagere.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Prof.-Al-Mariam.jpg" alt="Prof.-Al-Mariam" width="248" height="132" />Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam | <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/332093-us-doesnt-need-ethiopia-in-its-war-on-terror-in-the-horn-of" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Hill</a></em></p>
<p>Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1152333/mattis-trip-to-make-stops-in-middle-east-africa/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">visited</a> the Middle East and Africa to “reaffirm key U.S. military alliances” and engage with strategic partners.” Mattis only visited the tiny <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13231763" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nation</a> of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa where the U.S. maintains its largest military base. Ethiopia was conspicuously absent from the “strategic partner” lineup.</p>

<div class="post-teaser-block"><a href="https://www.ethiopiahagere.com/?p=1539" title="Permanent Link: US doesn’t need Ethiopia in its war on terror in the Horn of Africa" rel="bookmark">Read the full post </a></div>{"id":1539,"date":"2017-05-08T23:02:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T21:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2017-07-11T16:13:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:13:03","slug":"us-doesnt-need-ethiopia-in-its-war-on-terror-in-the-horn-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"US doesn\u2019t need Ethiopia in its war on terror in the Horn of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1540 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Prof.-Al-Mariam.jpg\" alt=\"Prof.-Al-Mariam\" width=\"248\" height=\"132\" \/>Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam | <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/foreign-policy\/332093-us-doesnt-need-ethiopia-in-its-war-on-terror-in-the-horn-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hill<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Article\/Article\/1152333\/mattis-trip-to-make-stops-in-middle-east-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">visited<\/a>\u00a0the Middle East and Africa to \u201creaffirm key U.S. military alliances\u201d and engage with strategic partners.\u201d Mattis only visited the tiny\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-13231763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nation<\/a>\u00a0of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa where the U.S. maintains its largest military base. Ethiopia was conspicuously absent from the \u201cstrategic partner\u201d lineup.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/?p=1539\" title=\"Permanent Link: US doesn\u2019t need Ethiopia in its war on terror in the Horn of Africa\" 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":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethiopiahagere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}