{"id":3806,"date":"2023-11-08T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2023-11-08T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:24:30","slug":"gunfire-in-ethiopian-holy-city-government-denies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/gunfire-in-ethiopian-holy-city-government-denies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire in Ethiopian Holy City, Government Denies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fighting broke out on Wednesday between the army and a regional militia in Ethiopia&#8217;s mediaeval holy city of Lalibela, a World Heritage site, four residents told Reuters, but the government said the area was peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>Fano, a part-time militia in the northern Amhara region which has no formal command structure, has been battling the army since late July.<\/p>\n<p>It captured Lalibela, famous for its rock-hewn churches, and Gondar, the second-biggest city in Amhara, for several days in August before being repulsed.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting, which has killed hundreds of people, is the biggest security challenge faced by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed since the Tigray war ended a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Fighting broke out on Wednesday between the army and a regional militia in Ethiopia&#8217;s mediaeval holy city of Lalibela, a World Heritage site, four residents told Reuters, but the government said the area was peaceful. Fano, a part-time militia in the northern Amhara region which has no formal command structure, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}