{"id":54556,"date":"2022-01-03T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=54556"},"modified":"2022-01-03T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:42:46","slug":"ethiopia-olf-shene-demands-for-ransom-to-release-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/54556","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia:\u00a0OLF\u00a0\u2013Shene demands\u00a0for\u00a0ransom to release\u00a0hostages\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF<\/strong><strong>\u00a0-Shene<\/strong><strong>) has demanded millions of birr as ransom to release 14 officials it kidnapped from the Dera district in Semien Shoa-Oromia regional state.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The officials including Tesfa Tadesse, finance and economy head in the district were taken hostages during the recent attacks and raid against civilians and government officials.<\/p>\n<p>It was later on learnt that the OLF Shene wanted ransom of 1 million birr for each captive but some of them were released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the OLF soldiers killed at least 30 civilians largely farmers and wounded several others in targeted attack against ethnic Amhara people.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the district accused Oromia security forces of establishing links with the OLF-Shene to commit attacks against ethnic Amhara people.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) reportedly\u00a0 chased OLF fighters from the Dera district.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting continues between Tigray forces and the Ethiopia army in three fronts namely Maitebri, Abaala and Adi Arkay fronts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 128,000 people were displaced from several localities of Guto Gida in of the East Wollega zone following days-long communal violence in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Administrator of the district Alemayehu Tesfaye blamed \u2018a radical Amhara armed group\u2019, Benishangul Gumuz People\u2019s Liberation Movement (BPLM) and Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) to instigate the violence there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF\u00a0-Shene) has demanded millions of birr as ransom to release 14 officials it kidnapped from the Dera district in Semien Shoa-Oromia regional state. The officials including Tesfa Tadesse, finance and economy head in the district were<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/54556\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":54557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Zegabi-13.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54558,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556\/revisions\/54558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}