Independent radio station will start broadcasting to Darfur

– A new radio station went on air Saturday,said reporters of Radio Dabanga, who pledged to report from inside Sudan as well as abroad. News and information programmes will commence on December
1st.
[image: JPEG - 9.8 kb] *Radio Dabanga*

The journalists will broadcast in three vernacular languages—soon to be expanded to four—and said they will produce "independent news and relevant information for all Darfuri: city folk, villagers and herdsmen, IDPs,
refugees, Darfuri abroad and in Sudan."

Radio Dabanga is a project of the Radio Darfur Network, a coalition of Sudanese journalists and international media development organizations, supported by a consortium of international donors, humanitarian community
organizations and local NGOs. The radio station is operated by Press Now in the Netherlands.

The station is named for a type of large storage vessel called dabanga (also sometimes written damanga or dabunga), which are used by Sudanese farmers to
preserve food.

Farmers tend to hide their valuables at the bottom of these containers, making them both precious and delicate. Thus there is an Arabic adage, "life is brittle as dabanga; roll it slowly." The radio station commented, "the
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