The Framing of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s First State Visit to Eritrea by National and International Media
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2021-02
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This study aimed at examining how national and international media framed Prime Minister Abiy
Ahmed’s first state visit to Eritrea with special focus on Addis Zemen, Reporter (Amharic), The Guardian and Xinhua. The research employed a qualitative research method to obtain data essential for the study. The media were selected through purposive sampling, and a total of forty news articles were analyzed. The research findings revealed that the premier’s visit mainly won positive coverage from the media even though neutral tone was also significantly used. But none of the media depicted the Prime Minister’s visit negatively. The findings also revealed that economy, geopolitics and human relations were the dominant themes across the stories analyzed. On the other hand, economic frame and conflict frame were found to be widely distributed in the news articles. The study concluded that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first state visit to Eritrea was not framed much differently by the local and international media. In fact, both the local and international media refrained from criticizing the visit or the Prime Minister in their coverage of the event.
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This study aimed at examining how national