The Insitute of War & Peace Reporting carries a story about Salam ila Darfur, a daily 30-minute programme produced by the BBC World Service Trust and broadcast on shortwave to western Sudan as well as parts of Chad and the Central African Republic. The broadcasts from transmitters in Cyprus are at at 0500 UTC and at 1700 UTC on 7150 kHz and 17595 kHz.
The Sudanese government operates its own radio service in Darfur. However, it is almost impossible to find anybody who believes a word produced by the state broadcaster. In any case, journalists working for the government are not allowed into the camps. The divide is so wide that Kodsi says he has attended health ministry meetings during which the government of Sudan has admitted it relies on the BBC to send messages to its own displaced people.
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(Source: R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)
