{"id":219130,"date":"2026-04-12T02:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219130"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:48:51","slug":"ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219130","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Crumbling of Rentier Fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Standard] Addis Abeba &#8212; For much of the past three decades, the political economy of the Horn of Africa rested on a fragile but durable arrangement: Ethiopia&#8217;s overwhelming dependence on Djibouti as its primary maritime gateway and Djibouti&#8217;s ability to convert geography into political and economic leverage&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602150027.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Standard] Addis Abeba &#8212; For much of the past three decades, the political economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress.jpg",1024,627,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress-300x184.jpg",300,184,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress-768x470.jpg",640,392,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress.jpg",640,392,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress.jpg",1024,627,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress.jpg",1024,627,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress.jpg",1024,627,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219130-ethiopia-crumbling-of-rentier-fortress-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}