Turning Back The Wheels of History

Turning Back The Wheels of History

Press Release of OMRHO: Oromia Times - October 12, 2008

It became public on September 12 that the Tigrigna and the Afaa Oromo TV programs were transferred to a regional status from a national one. Subsequently, their air time were abruptly shrunken on September 26, 2008 with the ultimate goal of implementing what the government called a “localizing policy”. By localizing, it is meant banning the Oromo program from a federal broadcast by limiting it to a regional status. The move has left not only 60 journalists unemployed but it also bracketed the approximately 37 million Oromos from the public life of the national program. Read More.