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Many prominent Oromo leaders in the government of Ethiopia use OBN as a platform to reach the majority of the Oromo-speaking population, such as when leading OPDO figure Abadula Gemeda announced his displeasure with the government's mistreatment of internally displaced Oromo people in 2017. [5] In March 2018, OBN was the first to confirm a ...
The "Oromo first” movement later grew into a political campaign, raising funds to establish the satellite TV station, launched 2013, along with Facebook and Twitter accounts using the brand Oromia Media Network (OMN). [3] During the launch, Jawar Mohammed was appointed as an Executive Director. OMN was inaugurated on 1 March 2014.
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]
There have been three major forces involved in the evolution of media in Ethiopia: (1) the need to communicate information about Ethiopia to the external world in order to create an international awareness of Ethiopia and its leaders, (2) the need for internal communication to provide information and to develop a sense of national identity and, later (3) the need to utilize media for education ...
TV Amantii Islaamaatiifii Seenaa Oromo: 8 Oromia News Network (ONN) Eutelsat (11178-H-27500-7/8) political 9 Gada News Network (GNN) Eutelsat (10727-H-27500-7/8) news and political 10 New Africa Oromo Eutelsat (11766-H-27500-5/6) news 11 Nuuralhudaa Islamic nuuralhudaa.com [permanent dead link ] 12 TV Islaamaa E7WA MENA (11392-V-27500-7/8 ...
The Oromo people are one of the oldest Cushitic peoples inhabiting the Horn of Africa.There is still no reliable estimate of the history of their settlement in the region, however, many indications suggest that they have been living in the north of Kenya and south-east Ethiopia for more than 7,000 years, until the great expansion in 1520 when they expanded to the south-west and some areas in ...
Aster Aweke [ʔəsɨteɾɨ ʔəwək'ə] (Amharic: አስቴር አወቀ; born 1959) [1] is an Ethiopian singer-songwriter. Aster's voice has attracted broader public popularity, especially tracing back in 1990s singles and her single "Abebayehosh" in Ethiopian New Year.
The auspicious day on which this last Mormor Day of Gadaa Melbaa - the Dark Time of starvation and hunger- was established on the Sunday of last week of September or the Sunday of the 1st week of October according to the Gadaa lunar calendar has been designated as National Thanksgiving Day by modern-day Oromo people. [citation needed]