"The Sudanese radio service plays an important part at national level on account of its popularity — The author maintains however that the atmosphere in the studios is not good, from several points of view — This is largely due to lack of cooperation and to the failure to divide responsibilities ... between the Ministry of Information and the postal and telecommunications service — He thus notes an almost total lack of organisation — The present situation is tending to improve, however; one of the reasons for this is the arrival of a member of staff, new to information work and trained in the United States, who has made a report on the present state of radio in the Sudan — Although there is a relatively large percentage of educational programmes, the music programmes continue to be the most popular." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1743, topic code 210.1) more