/Ethiopian-Conflict_CNN-International_Coverage

This repo is an attempt to record CNN International's coverage of the war between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government.

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Ethiopian Conflict: CNN-International (CNNI)’s Coverage

Triggered by a thought-provoking thread by Mekdes Asefa.

The the conflict started on

November 03, 2021

How has cnni covered the conflict?

See it for yourself on Google News

Goal of this repo

  • Extract stories–pertaining to the conflict–that CNN published ever since the conflict broke out, November 4, 2020.

So far

  • Articles: I have managed to scrape news articles that CNN published ever since. You can find the details about these news articles in this csv file, in the same directory.
The latest 5 articles
headline url date author contributors editorial_source update_time
Ethiopia’s leader said he would bury his enemy. His spokeswoman doesn’t think it was incitement to violence ethiopia-billene-seyoum-getachew-reda-ctw-interview-intl 2021-11-10 Eliza Mackintosh, CNN CNN’s Richard Roth and Jennifer Hansler contributed to this report. (CNN) Updated 2214 GMT (0614 HKT) November 10, 2021
Amnesty International accuses Tigrayan rebel fighters of gang raping women in Ethiopia amnesty-ethiopia-tplf-rape-intl 2021-11-10 Katie Polglase, Noon Salih and Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) Updated 1707 GMT (0107 HKT) November 10, 2021
Ethiopia’s war is echoing on the streets of Washington ethiopia-conflict-ethiopian-americans 2021-11-09 Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN CNN’s Chandelis Duster and Eliza Mackintosh contributed to this report. Washington (CNN) Updated 1823 GMT (0223 HKT) November 9, 2021
Young mother and elderly priest among Tigrayans arrested in Addis Ababa, witnesses say ethiopia-detentions-ethnicity-rights-commission-intl 2021-11-08 Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) Updated 2247 GMT (0647 HKT) November 8, 2021
Ethiopia’s military calls on former members to rejoin army as rebels advance on capital ethiopia-military-volunteers-rebel-advance-intl 2021-11-06 David McKenzie, CNN CNN’s Eliza Mackintosh and Kara Fox contributed to this report. (CNN) Updated 1407 GMT (2207 HKT) November 6, 2021



Apart from articles, CNN does produce news in other forms too. There is live news coverage with a collection of short “posts” (e.g. here), and video reporting (e.g. here) as well. This repo contains details about such coverage too.

  • Live-news coverage here

  • Video reports here

To-Do

  • Automate with GitHub Actions
  • Do an exploratory analysis
  • Download full body of the articles and do some text analysis
  • Download images and videos
  • Do the same for Reuters, BBC, and the likes