Hamdi Badr Eddin

Badr Eddin began his education in the traditional Quranic School at his hometown just like other children of his generation in the Sudan. Later he followed his primary and secondary education in Khartoum Union School and the Coptic College prospectively. In 1950, he joined Cairo University, Khartoum Branch (now Neelain University) in Khartoum.

He begun his professional career as school teacher, but his tendency for a media profession began as early as his youth years at the time of his studies at the Coptic College of Khartoum where he masterminds the school radio. It was 1958, when he joined the Sudanese Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). He said in one of his interviews that his entree to the Radio was pure by coincidence. He received a piece of paper from his elder brother with an advertisement from SBC looking for young people to read their news bulletins. He applied for the job, and was accepted. Badr al-Din was trained on radio works and he worked as a programs presenter, program-maker, news bulletins reader and a translator of news text. In 1960, He was sent to the United States to study journalism and informatics. He obtained Media Diploma from the University of Southern California. During that period he worked for the Voice of America radio for a year. In 1962, he was employed by the Sudan TV. He was one of the pioneers establishing a national television for the Sudan, which was gifted to the Sudanese by Thomson Corporation in the United Kingdom.

During his career in Sudan TV (STC) Badr Eddin gained great fame through his weekly program "Knights in the field" (Arabic فرسان في الميدان) An informative and entertainment show addressing young educated public, which lasted for ten consecutive years. In 1970 he traveled to West Germany, in a training mission for a period of three years during which he worked as a translator and later a journalist for the Voice of Germany broadcast, Arabic section. He was also sent to the United Arab Emirates, UAE, to work as a television supervisor where he contributed to the development of television programs works. In 1979, he was appointed director of TV programs in the STC. In 1984, a new Sudanese government decided to pensioned him off together with many of his colleague for public interest a termlikely to be interpreted in the Sudan as employment termination, often for political reason. He then set up his own center for Media Production in the Sudan. Soon the government quickly reversed its decision on the directives of Prime Minister. Sadiq al-Mahdi and issued a new decree appointing Badr Eddin first as deputy director general of the Sudan News Agency, SUNA, later as a director of the Sudan TV.

Again in 1991 was referred back to retirement also for the so-called public interest.

Hamdi Badr Eddin suffered a brain hemorrhage in 1998, after a successful surgery he suffered once again a setback in 2001 and undergone treatment at Sudanese hospitals, but his health remain deteriorating because of his inability to cover treatments' costs. This situation led to a wave of discontent through social media amid the Sudanese public opinion accusing the government and its public media agencies of ignoring Badr Eddin’s health problem and failed to assist him. Instead Badr Eddin being as American citizen holding a US travel document received some assistance from the US diplomatic mission in Khartoum.