SUDAN WATCH: VOA

Friday, March 19, 2010

VOA Thank You 17 March 2010

HERE is a copy of a nice surprise email received on Wednesday, 17 March 2010 from Jessica Stahl of the Voice of America (VOA), thanking me for linking to VOA here at Sudan Watch. Here's sending my thanks to Jessica. Thanks Jessica, looking forward to keeping in touch.

Subject: VOA's Sudan elections coverage

Dear Ms. Jones,

Hi there. I’m Jessica, writing to you from the Voice of America (http://www.voanews.com). I just wanted to send a quick note to thank you for pointing your Sudan Watch readers to our special report page on Sudan's upcoming elections. Your blog has been a great resource for myself and our reporters in following the news from Sudan, and we hope we can be as useful for you and your readers.

You can follow VOA's Sudan reporting via our RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/VOA/Sudan to see what we're working on. And our special report page will keep evolving as the elections get closer, so we hope you'll check back periodically at http://www.voanews.com/sudan.

Thanks again. Feel free to be in touch if you have any questions, comments or ideas for us.

Best,

Jessica Stahl
Presidential Management Fellow
VOA English

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

NYT & VOA Election Resources, Sudan News and Blogroll

Click here and see here below The New York Times (NYT) Blogrunner comprising editor's pick of Sudan specific commentary and blogs.

Thanks to NYT editors for regularly featuring this site, Sudan Watch, over past year or more.

Also, further here below is a list of Sudan specific sites featured in the sidebar of The Voice of America News (VOA) online.

Headlines Around the Web

What's This?

THE HUFFINGTON POST

MARCH 11, 2010

Sudan Is Still Up to No Good

SUDAN WATCH

MARCH 11, 2010

Security situation in Darfur 11 March 2010 - UNAMID brings together leaders in South Darfur on Doha Declaration

SPERO NEWS - RELIGIOUS NEWS

MARCH 11, 2010

Ban calls for renewed commitment to peace pact from Sudan ahead critical year

THE WASHINGTON POST

MARCH 10, 2010

U.S. envoy pushes for Darfur peace deal before Sudanese elections

EFF ACTION ALERTS

MARCH 10, 2010

Better U.S. Net Rules for Iran, Cuba and Syria

More at Blogrunner »

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VOA Special Report, Sudan News and Blogroll

Sudanese will vote April 11-13 in the country's first free elections since 1986. The vote is an outcome of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed in 2005 to end the bloody civil war between north and south.

In this [click here] special report, VOA looks at some of the major issues at stake and the challenges faced in staging fair elections.

Source: VOA (The Voice of America), which first went on the air in 1942, is an international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of 125 million people.

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VOA Election Resources, Sudan News and Blogroll
Here is a list of Sudan specific sites featured in sidebar at VOA website. Thanks to VOA for including this site, Sudan Watch.