London - The BBC on Monday launched new daily radio services producing news, current affairs, features and English language training for Ethiopians and Eritreans. The BBC World Service programmes will be broadcast from Monday to Friday in the Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya languages and will be aired on shortwave radio and streamed on Facebook. The announcements came as part of the World Service's biggest expansion since the 1940s, funded by the British government. "Through war, revolution and global change, people around the world have relied on the World Service for independent, trusted, impartial news", said Francesca Unsworth, BBC World Service Director. The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, reaching a global audience of 269 million weekly, on radio, television and online.

Source: Ethiopian News January 29, 2018 14:03 UTC