Mainstream media also faces challenges in disseminating news to the public. Instead, they only focus on promoting the interests and agenda of the ruling party, which is counterproductive. As a result, the public increasingly relies on social media for news.
Based on the recent cut down of the political space by the recently engaged ethnic officials by the prime minister enforcing a number of negative actions pointing towards failed reform and serious declining of citizen participation in the socio-political transition in Ethiopia,the government owned media journalists appear to have fallen victim for allegedly not covering the prime minister’s activities.
