{"id":222,"date":"2006-11-29T07:55:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T06:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=222"},"modified":"2006-11-29T07:55:50","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T06:55:50","slug":"forgotten-world-48-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (48): Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethiopia\">Ethiopia<\/a> is Africa&#8217;s oldest independent country. Apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini&#8217;s Italy, it has never been colonised.<br \/>\nAlthough largely free from the coups that have plagued other African countries, Ethiopia&#8217;s turmoil has been no less devastating. Drought, famine, war and ill-conceived policies brought millions to the brink of starvation in the 1970s and 1980s, but things improved a little with the overthrow in 1991 of the  self-proclaimed Marxist junta led by Mengistu Haile Mariam.<br \/>\nNevertheless Ethiopia is still one of Africa&#8217;s poorest states. Its people are almost two-thirds illiterate. The economy revolves around agriculture, which in turn relies on rainfall. The country is one of Africa&#8217;s leading coffee producers.<br \/>\nThe province of Eritrea was hived off in 1993 and a border dispute escalated into full-scale war in 1999. Border tensions persist and Ethiopia says it is technically at war with Somalia&#8217;s Islamists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is Africa&#8217;s oldest independent country. Apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini&#8217;s Italy, it has never been colonised. Although largely free from the coups that have plagued other African countries, Ethiopia&#8217;s turmoil has been no less devastating. Drought, famine, war and ill-conceived policies brought millions to the brink of starvation in the 1970s and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}