Ethiopian radio propaganda urged Somalis to violently overthrow their prime minister in 1966

Evidence

The embassy reporting officer concluded his report with, “It should be noted that the propaganda coming from Radio Addis has been especially slanderous and vicious during the prime Minister’s visit. It not only accused him and his ministers of being corrupt, inefficient, unclean and bloody-handed, but went so far as to urge the people to violence to rid themselves of these men.” — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1460

Categorization

• XREF: Shows how the Ethiopia-Somalia rivalry played out through hostile propaganda during the democratic era, contextualizing later tensions.