Khartoum, Feb 8 (NNN-PNN-SUNA) — Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir on Wednesday gave assurance of solutions to the difficulties faced by the media in the country on Wednesday.
He had on Wednesday evening met leaders of the mass media, press editors-in-chief and columnists at the Guest House here.
At the meeting, the Chairman of the Sudanese National Journalists Union, Al-Saddiq Al-Rizaigi, had called for a free press that works without censorship or constraints.
Al-Saddiq said that that the state should play an important role in supporting the press and the media, especially exempting by them from taxes and solving the economic problems that face them.
He reviewed the efforts and role played by the media in the national causes and during crises.
A number of speakers at the meeting also underscored the existence of real economic problems in the country and called for work to resolve the problems. They also called for dialogues with parties protesting the issues.
They called for enabling the accredited international mass media to convey correct information.
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