Sudan media behaviour Monday 1 August

KHARTOUM, Aug 1, 2005 (Sudan Tribune) — Sudan TV continued to air highlights of Garang’s political life in between bulletins. There was no martial music. The station also kept on re-running this morning’s cabinet meeting and clips of foreign envoys condoling with President Bashir and being interviewed by the media.

There was an unscheduled news bulletin at 1400 gmt, in Arabic, most of which was a repeat of the 1200 gmt one, except that the first item was on the Khartoum curfew. The 1500 gmt bulletin, which is normally in English, was instead read in Arabic and extended over the usual 10 minutes to half an hour. Again it was a repeat of the earlier one, as was the 1700 gmt bulletin, except there was the addition of an item on King Fahd.

There was no video footage of the riots in Khartoum and Juba, and the first report that alluded to them was aired in the 1900 gmt bulletin. There were some pictures of the injured in hospital and street scenes, but none of the actual rioting. Re-runs of the earlier programming are currently being aired.

EAU will have an Arabic monitor overnight who will continue to keep an open speaker watch.

The television has announced that the next news bulletin will be at 2300 gmt.

Material provided by the BBC Monitoring Service.