Al-Rayaam (also transliterated as Al-Rae Al-Aam,[1]Al-Rai Al-Aam,[2] and Al-Ra'y al-Amm[3]) (Arabic: الرأي العام meaning Public Opinion) is the oldest newspaper in Sudan. It was founded on March 15, 1945, by Ismail Al Atabani.[citation needed] As of 2011, it had a daily circulation of about 18,000.[2]
It is an Islamist paper and had strong links to the government of Omar al-Bashir, but also employed columnists who were anti-government.[2]
^ abcShinn, 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. ISBN978-0-8444-0750-0. 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)
