''SudaneseOnline'' () is an online

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for people from

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

and

South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the ...

, based in

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, United States. The website was established in November 1999 by Bakri Abubakr, a

ese national residing in the US, with news and information about

and

, and more than 500 archives in its library.

Content

The newspaper includes a section for news and press releases, covering local, regional, Sudanese and world news, an Opinions section, an image library with over 1500 images hosted by

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and an audio-visual library with over 5000 videos hosted by

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, with video clips from classic and modern

Sudanese music The rich and varied music of Sudan has traditional, rural, northeastern African roots and also shows Arabic music, Arabic, Popular music, Western or other Music of Africa, African influences, especially on the popular Urban contemporary, u ...

. The audio-visual library also contains an interactive archive of Sudanese folklore and historical events as well as several TV talk shows. ''SudaneseOnline'' focuses on the

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and

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climate in Sudan and South Sudan, with Sudanese news and views and a blog for Sudanese in the

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. The website is listed in the

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. ''SudaneseOnline'' has published several thousand articles that dealt with Sudan political affairs, regional and international issues. In addition, ''SudaneseOnline'' aims to enable its readers to establish friendship with others, and has assisted in retrieving family ties among some of its visitors. It has facilitated the marriages of 14 couples, e.g. the marriage of Alaa Tmbis and Dalia.

Campaigns

Members of the website collected more than eight thousand US dollars for the medical treatment of Sana'a Al-Amin Awadalkarim. They also financially contributed in the medical treatment of the Sudanese poet, the late Mahjob Sharrif and Ghada Noury (in Jordan) and the Sudanese child Mohammed Mahmoud Sayed Alyas. Readers of ''SudaneseOnline'' signed an appeal addressed to the Sudanese authorities to stop an execution verdict against the poet Abddul Monem Rahman, who was arrested by the Sudanese

National Intelligence and Security Service The National Intelligence and Security Service (Amharic: የብሔራዊ መረጃና ደህንነት አገልግሎት, NISS) is an intelligence agency of the Government of Ethiopia, Ethiopian federal government tasked to defend, protect and ad ...

Damazin Ad-Damazin () is the capital city of Blue Nile, Sudan. It is the location of the Roseires Dam and power generation plant. Ad-Damazin is served by a terminal station of a branch line of the national railway network. However, the train service to ...

after the eruption of the

Second Sudanese Civil War The Second Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, Sudan People's Liberation Army. It was largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil Wa ...

Blue Nile The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately through Ethiopia and Sudan. Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major Tributary, tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the wa ...

province together with his nineteen colleagues who have been detained and transferred from Singa prison to Kober prison in the capital,

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum is the capital city of Sudan as well as Khartoum State. With an estimated population of 7.1 million people, Greater Khartoum is the largest urban area in Sudan. Khartoum is located at the confluence of the White Nile – flo ...

. Readers of the website collected more than ten thousand US dollars for the publication of a book written by the Sudanese politician AlKhatim Adlan titled: "What is the Exile? What is the Homeland?" In addition, readers of ''SudaneseOnline'' and some Sudanese living abroad set up a network of reporters for Al-Rahil Awatef Ahmad Isaac from several countries, and a volunteer society with a $10 monthly membership fee.

In academic research

Several Sudanese researchers and students conducted post-graduate researches about ''Sudaneseonline''. These researchers included : * Dr. Saifuddin Hassan AlAwad who obtained his

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degree from the

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based on his dissertation titled: "Mutual Priorities of Conventional and Modern Mass Media- SudaneseOnline website as a case study" * Dr. Abu Obeida Abdel Qader Obaid Mudawi who obtained his

degree from

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–United States based on his dissertation titled: "The Role of SudaneseOnline in mass communication of Sudanese citizens around the world".

Blockage, hacker attacks and censorship

''SudaneseOnline'' has been exposed several times to blockage and hacking attacks from

Sudanese government The Government of Sudan is the federal provisional government created by the Constitution of Sudan having executive, parliamentary, and the judicial branches. Previously, a ''president'' was head of state, head of government, and commander-in ...

authorities. On 10 July 2004 the Arab Network for Human Rights Information issued a statement condemning blockage of SudaneseOnline by Sudanese government authorities, saying that it considered such blockage as a violation of freedom of opinion and expression according to human rights conventions, and an infringement of the right of information dissemination. The network pleaded with the Sudan government to immediately stop blockage of ''SudaneseOnline'' pursuant to article 19 of the Civil and Political Rights Convents, which guarantee provision and dissemination of information and ideas among people. The writings and books of several Sudanese intellectuals and writers published and downloaded in ''SudaneseOnline'' have been blocked and hacked by the Sudanese government authorities. These writers included the novelist Muhsin, Khalid whose books have been confiscated in

and severely criticized by the local media. ''SudaneseOnline'' is supported solely by advertising.

Awards

The Students Union of

Khartoum University The University of Khartoum (U of K) () is a public university located in Khartoum, Sudan. It is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. UofK was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established in 1956 when Sudan gained independence ...

(KUSU) awarded its annual prize in 2004 to ''Sudaneseonline'' for its support to Sudanese students' demands.اتحاد طلاب جامعة الخرطوم يكرم سودانيزأون لاين
''سودانيز أونلاين''. Retrieved on March 06, 2004.

References

External links

* {{Authority control African news websites Sudanese news websites Newspapers published in Sudan Arabic newspapers Newspapers established in 1999 English-language newspapers published in Arab countries

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Mass media in Sudan Mass media in South Sudan