Sudan promises to bring BBC Arabic back
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January 25, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of media, Abdula
Massar, has promised to reverse the government’s decision that banned
broadcasts of the BBC Arabic radio countrywide.
On 9 August 2010, Sudan took the BBC Arabic broadcasts off FM
frequencies in four main cities, saying the decision had nothing to do
with the reporting of the popular broadcaster, and everything to do
with actions breaching the accord regulating the terms of its service
and sanctity of national laws.
According to the Sudanese ministry of media, these actions included
the BBC’s smuggling of satellite equipments through the British
Embassy’s diplomatic courier.
Quoted by Sudan’s official news agency SUNA, the undersecretary of the
Media Ministry, Abdul Dafi al-Tayyib, said that his boss, Massar, made
the promise during a meeting on Wednesday with the British ambassador
in Khartoum, Nicolas Kay.
The official said that Massar’s discussed with Kay common issues and
the latter was particularly interested in the issues of press freedom
in Sudan.
Kay, in the latest entry on his controversial blog which saw him being
summoned by the authorities few times before, noted with regret that
pressures on journalists and on those exercising their right to speak
in Sudan are “again making the news” as the year 2012 begins.
Sudan exercises tight control over broadcast media while allowing
newspapers a semblance of freedom that is fraught with redlines.
Two newspapers were shut down this month by the National Security and
Intelligence Services which practices censorship on newspapers to
prevent them from reporting on controversial issues.
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