In 2010, the community radio station Voice of Peace, one of the new stations of the Catholic Radio Network (CRN) set up by the Episcopal Conference of Sudan, began broadcasting in the small village of Gidel. The purpose of the transmissions is to disseminate peace in the Nubian mountain region on the border between Sudan and South Sudan–the epicenter of one of the longest-running and most ignored wars on the African continent.
Voice of Peace has become a genuine point of reference for the people of the area, not only for its news (which is broadcast in English, Arabic and three local languages), but also for its programs on literacy, health, civic education and pastoral accompaniment.
The hope of the station is that one day it will be able to broadcast the news that peace has finally been established in this martyred Sudanese region.