{"id":3731,"date":"2014-07-07T11:52:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T04:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2014-07-07T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T04:52:13","slug":"britain-supports-a-dictatorship-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/britain-supports-a-dictatorship-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Britain supports a dictatorship in Ethiopia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 30 years since Ethiopia&#8217;s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life was good because the land was the land of our ancestors. The village was along the riverside, where you could get drinking water, go fishing and plant mango, banana and papaya. The temperature there was good and we could feed ourselves.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ethiopia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/06\/britain-supporting-dictatorship-in-ethiopia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Ethiopia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/\">Ethiopia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 30 years since Ethiopia&#8217;s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes. &#8220;Life was good because the land was the land of our ancestors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1298],"tags":[258,256,573,2297,4695,4716,1299,2298,2299,257,254,1040],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-britain","tag-dictatorship-in-ethiopia","tag-east-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-news","tag-ethiopias-famine","tag-farmer-plans-to-sue-britain-for-human-rights-abuses","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}