by MICT courtesy SudanVotes The level of media repression in Southern Sudan does not bode well for the future of an independent press. It is time to pass laws anchoring media freedom in the emerging nation. Recent developments concerning media clampdowns in Southern Sudan point to a future environment where freedom of expression, especially that [...]
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Press Freedom Deeper in Limbo After Newspaper Seizure in Southern Sudan
by Boboya Simon Wudu, courtesy SudanVotes The confiscation of the bi-weekly Juba Post by Southern Sudanese authorities has lifted the lid on legal uncertainties for independent media in the emerging nation. When security officials seized up to 2,500 copies of the Juba Post’s March 31 edition, the reason given by authorities was an article reporting that the [...]
Free media still on hold in South Sudan
by Marvis Birungi courtesy SudanVotes As Southern Sudan engages in the complex process of state building, free media seems to be one aspect the government needs to allocate more attention to. The Citizen, the only newspaper printed in the South, was subject to a police raid last Sunday. With Southern Sudan soon to become an [...]
Radio Miraya journalist arrested in Yei, Sudan
by Akim Mugisa courtesy SudanVotes As the Referendum approaches it is a busy time for Sudan’s media houses – and a tense time with many political interests at stake. Miraya FM journalist Isaac Moro, while working in Yei, was wrongly mistaken for Khartoum Government spy, and arrested. A senior radio journalist working with Foundation Hirondelle [...]
Are journalists being respected by politicians in Sudan?
by Bonifacio Taban courtesy SudanVotes How are our journalists and our children being treated? It has taken quite some time for us to dig any information from our local politicians all over the country. Sudan in general is a special case, since the country has two ruling systems of governance. That is to say the [...]
