{"id":180671,"date":"2024-09-16T11:19:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T09:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/ethiopia-remains-testament-in-sharing-pan-african-values-of-freedom-former-sierra-leones-fm\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T09:19:05","slug":"ethiopia-remains-testament-in-sharing-pan-african-values-of-freedom-former-sierra-leones-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/ethiopia-remains-testament-in-sharing-pan-african-values-of-freedom-former-sierra-leones-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Remains Testament in Sharing Pan-African Values of Freedom &#8211; Former Sierra Leone&#8217;s FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Addis Ababa, \u2014 Ethiopia has been in the forefront of promoting pan-African ideals as well as sharing the values of freedom and unity, according to the Global Black Center, Executive Board Chairman and former Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, Professor David Francis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Ethiopia, the historic and the oldest independent African nation, represents a melting pot of ancient cultures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Moreover, the oldest remains of a human ancestor ever discovered, dating back around five million years, were found in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409160071.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa, \u2014 Ethiopia has been in the forefront of promoting pan-African ideals as well as sharing the values of freedom and unity, according to the Global Black Center, Executive Board Chairman and former Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, Professor David Francis. Ethiopia, the historic and the oldest independent African nation, represents a melting pot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,4716,7636,7271,257,12715,7602,9713,6571,1135,254,41525,10027],"class_list":["post-180671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-freedom","tag-leones","tag-news","tag-panafrican","tag-remains","tag-sharing","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-testament","tag-values"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}