BBC Arabic launches news bulletins on Mango FM in Khartoum

Notes and media contacts

For more information contact:

Christine George, Assistant Publicist, BBC World Service
+44(0)207 557 1142

BBC World Service is an international radio and online broadcaster delivering programmes and services in 33 languages. It uses multiple platforms to reach 163 million listeners globally, including SW, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable channels. It has around 2,000 partner radio stations which take BBC content, and numerous partnerships supplying content to mobile phones. Its international online sites, which include audio and visual content and offer users opportunities to interact directly with world events, receive over 500 million page impressions, attracting around 33 million unique users a month.

BBC Arabic is the leading international radio news service in Arabic, and bbcarabic.com is the leading Arabic online news site. BBC Arabic broadcasts 24 hours a day, every day, with news on the hour, every hour. BBC Arabic broadcasts to the whole Arab world on short wave and through digital audio channels on the principal satellites covering the Arab world. In most of the eastern Arab world, BBC broadcasts are heard on medium wave, and in key cities the BBC is available on FM. The award-winning website bbcarabic.com also carries a live audio feed of BBC Arabic radio.

Mango 96 FM is part of Mango Holding, a private group with media and technology businesses and interests in Dubai, North Africa, Levant and Sudan. Mango 96 FM was the first private commercial FM service in Sudan. In 2007 Mango Holding will launch services in three new regions in Sudan and two other African countries. Further information can be found at mango96.com.