AMSTERDAM - With more than 2.5 million Ethiopians living outside of Ethiopia, the diaspora community is not only large, but influential. FILE - Members of the Oromo Ethiopian community in the U.S. demonstrate in support of Ethiopia's Oromo minority, in Washington, July 17, 2020. "So, essentially, Ethiopian politics moved back to the country when the opposition political parties moved back to the country. "There are two diaspora media outlets, Ethiopian Satellite TV and Oromo Media Network, who had been giving wall-to-wall coverage of the protest on the ground," he said. In 2018, the government invited Ethiopian Satellite TV and Oromo Media Network to operate from Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News July 30, 2020 05:48 UTC