Addis Ababa, February 16, 2025 (ENA)—Spokesperson for the Executive Secretary of IGAD, Patience Nyange lauded Ethiopian News Agency for its efforts in promoting African perspective and catching up the digital transformation in the changing media landscape.

On the margins of  the 38thAU summit in Addis Ababa, the spokesperson has paid a visit to Ethiopian News Agency (ENA)—the sole news wire service with a cutting edge media facility that encompasses the state-of-the-art editing and recording equipment.

Currently, ENA is establishing a digital transcontinental media platform called Pulse of Africa, aimed at serving as an African-focused media outlet.

Following her visit, Nyange said the Pulse of Africa is a good example of digital advancement and it would contribute its fair share to tell the African story.

“Africans are investing more in the digital transformation innovation that is happening around the world, and therefore we have not been left behind."

According to her, the Pulse of Africa would play its own role in Africa's effort to tell the true stories of the continent, adding that as “we say African solutions will be driven from African solutions.”

For her, Africa is a beautiful continent with beautiful stories that have to be promoted through its own and local perspectives.

The Spokesperson also reaffirmed IGAD’s commitment to collaborate with the Ethiopian News Agency and other media houses in the IGAD region through various ways.

“We collaborate with the rest of the media houses and ensure that the journalists within the region are trained quite often. So we have training opportunities for them. We also have a number of short courses that we do within the region as well as reward journalists through the IGAD Media Awards,” she indicated.