{"id":8571,"date":"2023-01-11T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/i-didnt-know-if-my-mother-was-alive-joy-and-grief-as-tigray-reconnects-to-the-world\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T06:37:20","slug":"i-didnt-know-if-my-mother-was-alive-joy-and-grief-as-tigray-reconnects-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/i-didnt-know-if-my-mother-was-alive-joy-and-grief-as-tigray-reconnects-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I didn\u2019t know if my mother was alive\u2019: joy and grief as Tigray reconnects to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The restoration of communications to the war-torn Ethiopian region after last month\u2019s peace deal has ended two years of extreme and destructive isolation for Tigrayans<\/p>\n<p>When Lemlem read online that phone lines had been restored to parts of Ethiopia\u2019s war-torn Tigray region last month, she spent the entire night trying to call her elderly mother, who lives in the Tigrayan town of Adwa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried maybe 20 or 30 times but the call wouldn\u2019t go through,\u201d Lemlem said from her home in Maryland in the US. \u201cWhen I finally heard her voice, it was so emotional. We were crying together and I was just so happy. For two years, I didn\u2019t know if she was alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jan\/11\/joy-and-grief-as-tigray-reconnects-to-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2f99a861f639a4bb51efe83ca719835fae54e90b\/695_0_4305_2583\/master\/4305.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d35608aae8aeaf7122f180791cffd6a7\" title=\"\u2018I didn\u2019t know if my mother was alive\u2019: joy and grief as Tigray reconnects to the world\" \/>The restoration of communications to the war-torn Ethiopian region after last month\u2019s peace deal has ended two years of extreme and destructive isolation for Tigrayans<br \/>\nWhen Lemlem read online that phone lines had been restored to parts of Ethiopia\u2019s war-torn Tigray region last month, she spent the entire night trying to call her elderly mother, who lives in the Tigrayan town of Adwa.<br \/>\n\u201cI tried maybe 20 or 30 times but the call wouldn\u2019t go through,\u201d Lemlem said from her home in Maryland in the US. \u201cWhen I finally heard her voice, it was so emotional. We were crying together and I was just so happy. For two years, I didn\u2019t know if she was alive.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The restoration of communications to the war-torn Ethiopian region after last month\u2019s peace deal has ended two years of extreme and destructive isolation for Tigrayans When Lemlem read online that phone lines had been restored to parts of Ethiopia\u2019s war-torn Tigray region last month, she spent the entire night trying to call her elderly mother, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/i-didnt-know-if-my-mother-was-alive-joy-and-grief-as-tigray-reconnects-to-the-world\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I didn\u2019t know if my mother was alive\u2019: joy and grief as Tigray reconnects to the world<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}