Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Race car driver Fahmi Girma tears along a dirt track in his souped-up Toyota Vitz on the outskirts of Addis Ababa past shepherd boys tending cattle – accompanied by energetic ...

London — Usually stories about media freedom and broadcasting in Africa are all about murdered journalists, the shutdown of broadcast stations and repressive laws. So it makes a change to tell the ...

Broadcast exclusively in the lingua franca of Ethiopia - a necessity with 80 dialects across the country - and after decades of drab Ethiopian state-owned television, KANA TV marks a breakthrough in ...

Dubai-base Moby Group, best known for a clutch of TV and radio channels beamed into Afghanistan, is to launch a new TV channel in Ethiopia Moby, in which Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has a stake, ...

TV Azteca International has secured a deal with Kana TV in Ethiopia for the 80×1-hour series Iron Lady (La Fiscal de Hierro). Iron Lady tells the story of Silvana Durán (Iliana Fox), a lawyer who ...

JOHANNESBURG — Turning on a TV in Addis Ababa just a few years ago, you were likely to be treated to drab program blocks on pubcaster EBC, unless you tuned into one of the popular satcasters beamed in ...

KANA TV marks a breakthrough in Ethiopian televised entertainment. It may also signal a shift in Ethiopia’s much criticised media environment.