Walta

For other uses, see Walta (disambiguation).

Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C. or Walta, previously called Walta Information and Public Relations Center S.C., or Walta Information Center, is an Ethiopian commercial media conglomerate owned and operated by the Ethiopian government.^[1] Walta, located in Addis Ababa, was founded in 1994 and supplies the Ethiopian News Agency and other media with local and national news.^{[citation needed]}

Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C.

Country	Ethiopia
Broadcast area	Ethiopia
Headquarters	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Programming
Language(s)	English Amharic Arabic
Ownership
Owner	Ethiopian government
Sister channels	Walta TV
History
Launched	1994; 31 years ago (1994)
Links
Website	https://waltainfo.com

History

Walta has been affiliated with the Ethiopian government since 1992 or earlier.^[2] As of 2020^[update], Walta supported the federal Ethiopian government and the Prosperity Party.^[3]

Contents

As part of the media conglomerate, there is an online medium in English, Amharic and Arabic with local, national, and international news and a TV station, Walta TV, broadcasting mainly social and political news in Amharic over satellite.^[4]

Objectives

According to Walta, it gathers, organizes, analyzes and disseminates news and provides "image building and public relation support activities".^[5]