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Notably, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was a board member of the organization that runs OBN before assuming the office of prime minister. [ 2 ] In February 2018, the president of the Oromia regional state, Lemma Megersa , pledged to defend the independence and impartiality of the state-run Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN), among others.
News, culture, entertainment, human rights: fnnmedia.org: 2 Oromia Media Network (OMN) Eutelsat (11555-V-27500-3/4) news and political Oromiamedia.com Archived 2020-08-09 at the Wayback Machine: 3 Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN) Ethiosat (11512-H-27500-3/4) Generalist channel: obnoromia.com: 4 OBN horn of Africa: Eutelsat (11137-H-27500-5/6 ...
The Oromia Media Network (OMN) is an Oromo news channel headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.. OMN is established as a non-profit independent media outlet 501(c)(3) organization, licensed under the Federal Communications Commission funded by public donors from the broader Oromo diaspora.
A government-run news agency, now called the Ethiopian News Agency, ran from 1942 to 1947, and then was relaunched in 1954. Early twenty-first century Ethiopian newspapers can be broadly divided into two categories, Ethiopia based and diaspora based, with the majority of the diaspora-based ones being digital-only newspapers.
Jawar Mohammed (Oromo: Jawaar Mahammad; ግእዝ፡ ጃዋር መሐመድ born 12 May 1986) [1] is an Ethiopian political analyst and activist. [3] [4] [5] One of the founders of the Oromia Media Network (OMN), Jawar was a leading organizer of the 2014–2016 Oromo protests. [5]
It is fully owned by the Ethiopian government. Its programming includes news, sport, music and other entertainment. The majority of the programming is broadcast in Amharic, official languages of Ethiopia. [5] Some news segments are broadcast in other languages, such as Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya, Afar, and English. [6]
The Oromo conflict or Oromia conflict is a protracted conflict between the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ethiopian government. [17] [18] The Oromo Liberation Front formed to fight the Ethiopian Empire to liberate the Oromo people and establish an independent state of Oromia.
The Gida Kiremu massacres refers to a series of attacks between 18 and 20 August 2021 when the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) targeted Amhara civilians in Gida Kiremu, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, killing over 210. The attack on 18 August killed 150 Amhara civilians, and reprisal attacks by Amhara militias killed 60 mostly-Oromo civilians the day after.