Al-Wifaq (newspaper)

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Al Wifaq is a Sudanese Arabic-language daily newspaper.[1] As of 2011, it was pro-government and anti-West.[1]

In 2006, the Sudanese government ordered the murder of Mohamed Taha, the newspaper's editor.[1] An Islamist extremist group claimed responsibility for the murder.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d Shinn, David H. (2015). "Information Media" (PDF). In Berry, LaVerle (ed.). Sudan: a country study (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 271–275. ISBN 978-0-8444-0750-0. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)