Monitoring the Coverage of Sudan 2010 Elections Interim Report no. 5

This report provides the findings of the media monitoring activities during the election days in Sudan spanning from 11-15 April and the post-election days during which the country was awaiting the results of the vote count between 16-23 April. This is the fifth media monitoring report published by the Sudan Media and Elections Consortium (SMEC).

The election and post-election monitoring during this period is slightly different from the monitoring carried out in the campaigning period prior to the elections. Political campaigning is no longer prevalent in media advertisements or in news pieces or programmes. The media’s focus during and in the days after the elections has been on the actual elections and the counting of votes.

Therefore, during the election days the monitors did not measure the time and space allocated to the various political parties. Instead, monitors concentrated on counting the number of cases in which media covered political actors and parties and the formats used by the media for their coverage.

For the post-election period up to 23 April, the monitors again measured the airtime and space devoted to political parties and the tone used in the coverage. The Annex of this Report shows the findings on the tone of coverage and the allocation of time and space per medium observed.

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