{"id":87237,"date":"2010-03-26T18:28:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T10:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/voa-challenges-ethiopian-governments-satellite-broadcast-jamming\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T10:28:41","slug":"voa-challenges-ethiopian-governments-satellite-broadcast-jamming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/voa-challenges-ethiopian-governments-satellite-broadcast-jamming\/","title":{"rendered":"VOA Challenges Ethiopian Government\u2019s Satellite Broadcast Jamming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-26-10] U.S. government-funded broadcaster <strong>Voice of America<\/strong> (VOA) has altered and restarted its satellite broadcasting service in Ethiopia after the country\u2019s prime minister ordered it jammed, VOA announced March 25.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe international broadcasting agency launched this new means of transmission in order to overcome the jamming by the government of Ethiopia,&#8221; VOA said in a release posted on its Web site.<br \/>\nIn a March 17 statement from Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, the government accused VOA\u2019s radio service in of broadcasting propaganda.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; VOA claimed its shortwave broadcasts into Ethiopia in Amharic have been jammed for three weeks. The <strong>U.S. Department of State<\/strong> criticized the Ethiopian Government\u2019s signal jamming as a violation of international law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-26-10] U.S. government-funded broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) has altered and restarted its satellite broadcasting service in Ethiopia after the country\u2019s prime minister ordered it jammed, VOA announced March 25. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe international broadcasting agency launched this new means of transmission in order to overcome the jamming by the government of Ethiopia,&#8221; VOA said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}