Our Powerful Media Must Be Extended to the North

Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:23 pm

Our Powerful Media Must Be Extended to the North.

SPLM must expand its media capacity over more of the country if the authority of the ruling NCP is to be checked. Most critics say the expanded SPLM-Northern front is having a significant impact on the NCP.

One of the main issues for the SPLM is to extend its writ and its reach into the more remote, not only province capitals and districts, but into the capital Khartoum as well. I know we're working on it. There are programs that exist that are trying to address that, and that's one of the things that we're going to have to work hard on going forward.

NCP remains terrorizing the South and the New Sudan for that mater, exploiting local grievances about issues such as corruption and poor governance, militias and other factors to attract recruits. We also should attribute to the increase in attacks to a more aggressive posture by our Northern SPLM front, which have taken an increasingly direct role in fighting the ignoramus governing based along the national level.

"I think that several things may explain the increased violence in southern Sudan and Darfur, not the least of which that UN and other forces have been taking a more proactive posture in that part of the country. UN media have started going into areas that had previously not been touched by most media. So I think that one has to take that into account. And my understanding is that the NCP have suffered some quite severe losses in those media engagements. And it remains to be seen what the net outcome of all of that is."
The new spate of attacks has also sparked another war, this one of words between GoSS President Salva Kiir and his “well, future” counterpart, Omar Elbashir.

President Salva who accuses President Bashir of slowly implementing the CPA and frequently supporting the LRA, also did not help in cracking down on militias activity in Sudan and infiltration from Sudan's largely lawless tribal areas in the West and South. President Bashir, responds by saying the tribal war are to be a Sudan internal problem, not a Worlds one.

Recently NCP, the government, signed so many treaties with Darfur, and other leaders to get them to stop the “tribal infiltration” as they defined, but it remains to be seen if it will never accomplish its purpose. I think those treaties are already in troubles. As you know they were actually initiated by the NCP themselves in order to get a safe haven, which they now have.


Our project should consider both SPLM and NCP key allies in combating injustice and implement Comprehensive Peace Accord, hosts media at the national level and improve SPLM outreach in an attempt to mend the rift between the two ruling parties.


An SPLM media would help and rescue lots of our people in the north and all parts of Sudan. It is very crucial that we must have channels in Khartoum.

Brother in Struggle
Giir Biar