US Embassy, Johns Hopkins University to Conduct Nationwide Media Training on Election

ENA March 3/2020 The nationwide media capacity training, which is aimed at supporting democratic elections in Ethiopia, is conducted by the embassy, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University.

According to a press release of the embassy, “the goal of the program is to enhance the skill sets of journalists and strengthen the institutional capacity of Ethiopian media organizations to produce objective, fact-based reporting on the elections process, which will in turn improve the quality of information available to the Ethiopian public in the lead up to the 2020 national elections.”

A one-week training on elections will be conducted at 25 places across the country. This constitutes an important part of the United States support for free, fair, and credible elections, it added.

Ethiopia is due to hold national election in August, 2020.