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 [...]
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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 [...]
Fi al Mizan Team Defy Censorship in Darfur
[IWPR] More than a million people in Darfur and Chad tune in to weekly justice radio programme. Amid a crackdown on press freedom by the Sudanese government, a radio programme on justice issues, co-produced by IWPR and Dutch-based Radio Dabanga, continues to provide a rare source of impartial news to Darfuris and refugees in eastern [...]
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 [...]
World Press Freedom Day Comes and Goes in Sudan
by Ochan Hannington courtesy Sudan Votes What is the use of recognising such days if journalists like Bonifacio Taban still face arrest and intimidation? What is the use of recognising such days in South Sudan, if journalists like Bonifacio Taban still face arrest and intimidation? Please spend a moment to read some of these texts [...]
