But critics charge that the program — meant to provide displaced people in Sudan with “accurate and objective information about their country” — is instead broadcasting in a language most of its target audience doesn’t understand and has watered-down criticisms of Sudanese officials (whom the U.S. government holds responsible for genocide in Darfur). An outspoken Darfuri-American news reader who repeatedly challenged the program’s non-Darfuri editors has also been fired.
US Radio Program Goes Soft On Sudan
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