Yasir Arman, Deputy Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) has criticized the Sudanese government for suspending BBC Arabic radio relays in north Sudan, accusing the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) there of seeking to “control all media sources.”Yasir Arman, sees ulterior motives behind the move.”What’s happening is not a technical or procedural matter as it appears on the surface,” Arman told Sudan Tribune yesterday. Mr Arman said that the BBC brought in the satellite equipment more than two years ago but the BBC was not suspended then. He dismissed the official reason as “a pretext”, adding that the move was “part of the NCP’s attempts to control all media sources that provide Sudanese citizens with information.”
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)