{"id":30152,"date":"2016-11-09T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ethiopia-s-diplomatic-travel-ban-ends-as-peace\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T01:11:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:11:57","slug":"ethiopia-s-diplomatic-travel-ban-ends-as-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ethiopia-s-diplomatic-travel-ban-ends-as-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;s diplomatic travel ban ends as &#8216;peace restored&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Ethiopia has lifted a ban on diplomats travelling more than 40km (25 miles) from the capital Addis Ababa without permission, state media report.}<\/p>\n<p>The ban was imposed under last month&#8217;s state of emergency and has been lifted because relative peace and security has been restored, Defence Minister Siraj Fegessa was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has recently faced an unprecedented wave of violent protests.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Fegessa said the situation nationwide was now much more stable.<\/p>\n<p>He said the travel ban &#8211; imposed for the safety of diplomats &#8211; was being lifted because it was &#8220;unthinkable&#8221; that the security threat was so serious.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia last month declared a six-month state of emergency after a wave of deadly anti-government demonstrations by activists in both the Oromia and Amhara regions.<br \/>\nThe deaths of at least 55 people at an Oromo religious festival on 2 October triggered fresh unrest, including the targeting of some foreign-owned businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups say that at least 500 people have died during the protests overall.<br \/>\nSome of the things restricted under the state of emergency included social media, broadcast media, protests, gestures, freedom of movement and guns.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16280 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_92323102_gettyimages-482103564.jpg\" alt=\"The ban on diplomatic travel was imposed as part of last month&#039;s state of emergency\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Ethiopia has lifted a ban on diplomats travelling more than 40km (25 miles) from the capital Addis Ababa without permission, state media report.} The ban was imposed under last month&#8217;s state of emergency and has been lifted because relative peace and security has been restored, Defence Minister Siraj Fegessa was quoted as saying. Ethiopia has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30152"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30152"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}