THE NEW SUDAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES:

In order to assess the credibility of the New Sudan Council of Churches, one must examine the situation within those areas in which it exists. These are areas controlled by the SPLA.

This organisation has been described by the New York Times, no friend of the Sudanese government, as "brutal and predatory" and "an occupying army, killing, raping and pillaging".

THE BBC AND SUDAN

A Case Study in Prejudice and Poor Reporting

On 29 January 2001, the British Broadcasting Corporation Television screened Everyman: The Dangerous Adventures of Baroness Cox. This programme followed Baroness Cox, President of Christian Solidarity Worldwide (formerly Christian Solidarity International or CSI), on one of her controversial visits to southern Sudan.

IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM:

British Media Reporting of Allegations of Chemical Warfare in Southern Sudan

In August 1999, several British newspapers, and the BBC, published unconfirmed allegations that the Sudanese armed forces had used chemical weapons in attacks on Sudanese rebels in Lainya and Kaya in southern Sudan.

QUESTIONABLE SOURCES, QUESTIONABLE
JOURNALISM:

The Observer and Sudan
In 7 May, The Observer newspaper published a lengthy article by Julie Flint on the Nuba people, an amalgam of black African tribes in central Sudan. Entitled 'Nuba face Destruction' this article was yet one more example of the all too questionable and partisan journalism that has characterised much of the reporting of the Sudanese civil war.

CHEMlCAL WEAPONS IN SUDAN

The Baroness Cox Allegations Fiasco

In July 1999, the rebel Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) and Norwegian Peoples Aid, a pro-rebel solidarity group operating in southern Sudan, alleged that the Sudanese armed forces had used chemical weapons in attacks on Sudanese rebels in three places, including Lainya and Kaya, in southern Sudan.

BARONESS COX AND SUDAN:

How Reliable A Witness?

Baroness Cox has presented herself over the past several years as an expert witness on Sudan and Sudanese issues. She has testified as such before various committees of the United States Congress and has also spoken on Sudan at various other conferences and gatherings.

'TAKING SIDES IN SUDAN':

The Daily Telegraph's support for continuing war and starvation in Sudan

The Daily Telegraph published an editorial on 20 July 1998 entitled 'Taking sides in Sudan'. In this, the newspaper's second foray into Sudanese affairs recently, it came out against the idea of a ceasefire within those areas of Sudan affected by famine,