Every year the Ethiopian Media Association International (EMAI) recognizes the 25 most influential and popular Ethiopian media outlets in the world. This year, the two top websites, Ethiopian Review and Nazret.com, squared off and left the field behind by becoming two of the most visited African websites. In the end, EthiopianReview.com took the lead [by a wide margin] to become the #1 Ethiopian website in the world.
EMAI congratulates the top 25 best Ethiopian news websites listed below.
To qualify for the EMAI ranking, the news media must be Ethiopia-focused, without automatic/computerized feeds, it must be news-focused, attain high traffic and have some original reports of its own.
The following 25 media have received the 2009 EMAI awards for the most popular Ethiopian news websites of the year. (Click here for more details)
1. Ethiopian Review
2. Nazret.com
3. Ethiomedia.com
4. Ethiopian Reporter
5. EthioForum.org
6. AbbayMedia.com
7. AbugidaInfo.com
8. Tadias.com
9. ECADForum.com
10. Jimma Times
11. Ethiopia Zare
12. Addis Fortune
13. Walta Information Center (State-owned)
14. Ethiopiafirst.com
15. Addisvoice.com
16. Ethiopian News Agency (State-owned)
17. Aigaforum.com (Ruling party-affiliated)
18. Gadaa.com
19. Addis Admass News
20. EthioLion.Com
21. Capital Ethiopia
22. Opride.com
23. Ssinformer.com
24. Ethioguardian.com
25. Horizonethiopia.com
21 thoughts on “Ethiopia’s Top 25 Most Popular Media of 2009”
Congratulations, Elias Kifle, for making the Ethiopian Review one of the best and widely read web sites in the world. We are proud of you, Elias, and it will not be too long before your dreams come true – the liberation of Ethiopia and the return of all of us in the diaspora to our beloved country.
bravo elias
once again, you are the winner
this shows most ethiopians want unity with eritrea to remove TPLF
Kudos to Ethiopian Review and for me the following medias are working for the ruling minority junta in Addis to destroy the people and dismantle the country namely:
1 Ethiomedia
2 AbugidaInfo
3 Walta Information Center
4 Ethiopian News Agency
5 Aigaforum.com
It is unfortunate that the five medias mentioned above found in the Pandora Box we have ever since 1983EC.
The terrorist is Meles and Bereket! rather, Dr. Birhanu has been fought for DEMOCRACY AND UNITY and he is one of the greatest icons for bringing democracy in the country. His struggle was for Free Press, election, military, Parlama and improving the economy of the country. Unfortunately, Meles and Bereket are anti democray and they proved their worst leadership by jailining and killing pro democracy people.
Meles and Bereket, please you cannot foolish the US in the name of terrerism to kill democracy in the country. The Americans know what terrorism means!
The Americans, please understand that this is to intimidate other people from fighting for democracy for that country!
What has been proved now is the fight for true democracy (Birhanu) and worst quality of leadeship ( by Meles and Bereket).
Elias firsrt and foremost happy new year for you and all your supporters and family.Ethiopian review I congratulate you on your success and for being the one to face harrasment and intimidation by weyane puppets and sold out hodamotches.Elias you have made Weyane”s godfather Sebhat Nega to hide behind curtains somewhere in Adwa dirty bar.Yes indeed when he came to U.S and exposed himself his ignorance and his stupidity and narrow minded tigrayan backwordness you and your collegues where the ones that made the public know and understand the true nature of the un-civilized weyane top leaders that has been presented by the western medias as progressive and honest leaders when in fact Meles and his followers are war lords that run tigrayan militias(agazis)that ae ruling Ethiopia thru coecion,intimidation and corruption.
Elias you personaly went to Humera I admire your courage even though it was risky it shows how much you want to be part of the inner struggle for the freedom and salvation of Ethiopia and Ethiopians.Interviewing President Essayas Afwerki, which seemed absurd for some people opened thousands of Ethiopians to distinguish the difference between shaebia and weyane.A lot of people now know E.P.L.F is an Eritrean nationalist movement that is dedicated to built a nation from scratch by Eritrean sweat,money and blood and no grudge against Ethiopians as a neighboring country and people,While Weyane is exclusively tigrayan organization that is determined to built abay tigrayan empire by exploiting Ethiopians and ethiopian resorurces and leave the majority in dire poverty stricken with diseases and backwordness.
Again happy holidays and new year peace for the people of horn.Hopely mercenary weyane will be buried in his deserved grave and rot in hell.
There are few simple reasons why Ethiopian review is popular media outlet. It is because of the great contribution Elias Kefle brought to the media. Ethiopian review is the only media outlet where a large number of Eritreans share information with their brothers and sisters of Ethiopians, and this is the only media outlet strongly supports to all Ethiopian freedom fighters and all Ethiopian people regardless of their ethnic background. This is the only website advocates a good partnership with Eritrea and other neighbors. This is the only website that has an opened minded editor and his teams. Ethiopian review is the only media outlet with an editor who strongly engaged in exposing woyane’s deceitful nature. Thus, without question Ethiopian review is number one.
Congratulations to all of you
Congra Elias and ER. Job well done!
Congratulation ECADF been in the top 10 with short period of time shows that ECADF potential I expect ECADF to be 3rd at list for next year.
congra elias! i think elias has open minded and good vission for futuer of ethiopia.he distributed alweys truth and fact , god bless you.
walta beat aigaforum, hahahahahaha!!!
death to woyanes!!!!!!!!!
Merry chrismass Elias.
Big Up ELI!!! Gena meche techemereana. we are proud of You. By the way HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! You are the Best and the people appriciate that– THAT IS WHY ETHIOPIAN REVIEW IST NR. 1.
Congradulation to Ethiopoian Reveiw for its reletless effort and dedication to serve the truth.
However, I amused and confused how the mouth piece of the Ethno-Fascist of Abay Tigray [Aiga Forum]made to # 17.
Congratulations on a well earned recognition as the Number One Ethiopian website by a large margin. This shows us that the majority of Ethiopians have no animosity towards their Eritrean brothers and sisters, all the past animosity was a result of a well orchestrated disinformation campaign to hoodwink the majority of Ethiopians into believing that there exits a non-ending animosity between them and Eritreans. Ethiopian review destroyed that myth in a very short time. Thank you Mr. Elias Kifle, you are a hero.
each and every web master posts his own ranking version ! i saw more than 3 different ranking …here is, quatero ranking version
1 ETHIOPIAN REIVEW 55,579
2 NAZRET 73,426
3 CYBER ETHIOPIA 151,590
4 ETHIOMEDIA 189,235
5 REPORTER 307,271
6 EMF 323,359
7 ABBAY MEDIA 356,543
8 ABOGIDA 372,634
9 QUATERO 398,244
10 TADIAS 478,606
11 ECAD FORUM 492,668
12 ETHIOPIA ZARE 499,345
13 JIMMA TIMES 562,153
14 ADDIS FORTUNE 624,277
15 ADDIS VOICE 638,106
16 WALTA 646,316
17 ETHIOPIAN FIRST 691,959
18 ETHIO POLITICS 724,104
19 AIGA FORUM 728,062
20 ADDIS ADMAS 881,353
so which one is correct? you are confusing us! i saw some where Ethiopian review rank 9th ! ethiomedia 10th i do not know!
Oh! i did not say CONGRA! Elias, I think it is too hard for other site to reach where ethiopian review is now, a huge gup WoW! only nazret is closer … 20,200!! u mest be proud of yourself!! CONGRA!!!! ER
Congra Elias good job! and happy new year
Viva ER! Congrats! Happy New Year and Keep doing what you do, exposing Woyane!
Congratulations Elias!
Why do you succeed where many are failing? You stated it best … due to Ethiopian Review’s clear, consistent, and principled stand on issues.
The biggest problem in Ethiopian politics is that nobody seems to have a clear, consistent and principled stand on issues. The nearest one that comes to mind is Andargachew Tsige, after he escaped from Ethiopia. The next nearest current principled stand is that of Birhanu Nega. Both lose though on the account of their previous non-clear, non-consistent, non-principled stands. Ethiopia has paid dearly for the inconsistence of her politicians. I have been very citical of both before, but the best chance we now have are Andargachew and Birhanu.
Congratulation Ethiopian Review and Elias. You certainly deserve the award because you are simply the best.
In my opinion, the Ethioguardian is the best website. I found an amazing book by an Ethiopian-American writer, Savannah.
The book is called IMOGENE and it is a fantasy about a young adult woman who journeys into her favorite book to escape her abusive-murderous stepfather.
http://www.ethioguardian.com/news.php?extend.3370