office of the al-jazeera media network in khartoum to be shut down giving any reason at all well david shinn is a former deputy chief of mission at the us embassy in sudan he joins me now from washington via skype what do you make of these developments that we're seeing in syria and the fact the process camp which has been there for many weeks now has no been described as a danger. well the 1st time in the post you're the eldest there office i'm a cartoon that is a setback for freedom of the press i think that is reflective of gulf state politics and the fact that sadam has been the beneficiary about $3000000000.00 financial aid from saudi arabia the united arab emirates as far as the ongoing demonstrations and khartoum are concerned this is only one of a long series of incidents that have occurred sense the demonstration broke out on april 6th i would indicate i would suggest that it is a setback but probably not a serious one both the transitional military council on the one hand and the protest group led by the sudanese professionals association on the other have gone through a number of

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continue its coverage of sudan despite this political interference by the sudanese authorities david shinn is a former deputy chief of mission at the u.s. embassy in sudan he says the fact that talks are continuing is cause for optimism this is only one of a long series of incidents that have occurred sense the demonstration broke out on april 6th i would indicate i would suggest that it is a setback but probably not a serious one both the transitional military council on the one hand and the protest group led by the sudanese professionals association on the other has gone through a number of these episodes of both are done here both are any committed for the long term the 2 sides have not yet reached agreement on how to divide up power or indeed what even the timeframe with before turning power over to civilian authority but the fact that the talks are ongoing i think has a relatively positive development when you can the final analysis they have and they actually will be successful the greater concern here would be at least some of the individuals who are involved in the transitional mil

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continue its coverage of sudan despite this political interference by the sudanese thora cities david shinn is a former deputy chief of mission at the u.s. embassy in sudan and he says the fact that talks are continuing is cause for optimism this is only one of a long series of incidents that have occurred since the demonstration broke out on april 6th i would indicate i would suggest that it is a setback but probably not a serious one both the transitional military council on the one hand and the protest group led by the sudanese professionals association on the other has gone through a number.