The Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers

In this lecture, we shall discuss the media system in Sudan. According to my typology I subsume it as a media system of a presidential republic. The presidential republican system is the model that we concentrate on in Sudan. The Sudanese political history is the basis for an explanation of the media system. It is very long and complicated and witnessed a great deal of alternations between a democratic regime and a military regime. And this is the reason for having different models for the media and press systems. In the Sudanese history, there have been several internal political conflicts…