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Sudan In the 2011-2012 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index Sudan was ranked 170 out of 179 countries.
South Sudan
In the 2011-2012 press freedom index Reporters Without Borders ranked South Sudan 111th out of 179 countries
In its July report, Reporters Without Borders stated that since secession South Sudan is “at a crossroads, wondering whether to behave differntly from Khartoum or give way to repressive instincts”.
The report added that South Sudan “is not currently prey to concerted and systematic harassment of its media," but that that "there has been a disturbing accumulation of incidents and isolated acts of repression or intimidation that end up undermining the climate in which journalists and media operate."
Many South Sudanese journalists are dissatisfied with the absecence of media legislation and say they are exposed to political attacks by the security services at the behest of senior politicians.
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PRESS FREEDOM INDEX 2011/2012
South Sudan, a new nation facing many challenges, has entered the index in a respectable position (111th) for what is a breakaway from one of the worst ranked countries, Sudan (170th).
- Friday 17 May 2013
May 16, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese authorities have officially began implementing the directives of 1st Vice President Ali Osman Taha to lift direct pre-publication censorship on newspapers. A Sudanese journalist protests against (...)
- Thursday 6 December 2012
December 6, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudanese political commentator, Isaiah Ding Abraham Chan Awuol, was shot dead in front of his house in Gudele, west of the capital Juba, early on Wednesday morning by unknown gunmen. South Sudanese (...)
- Monday 13 May 2013
May 12, 2013 (JUBA) - The South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy (SSHURSA) has called for South Sudan’s deputy minister of interior to step down over the detention of two Juba Monitor newspaper journalists who were recently (...)
- Tuesday 11 December 2012
December 10, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan Human Rights Advocacy Association (SSHURA) on Monday called for the “immediate resignation” of security ministers, charging both the interior and a national security ministers in the office of the (...)
- Friday 7 December 2012
December 7, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan president Salva Kiir, on Thursday ordered security services to conduct a “thorough investigation” into the killing of the former South Sudan army (SPLA) turned political commentator, Isaiah Diing (...)
- Wednesday 24 April 2013
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- Thursday 6 December 2012
By Biel Boutros Biel
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- Friday 3 May 2013
Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom
New York, May 2, 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the African Union, to uphold press freedom (...)
- Tuesday 7 May 2013
May 5, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Restrictions on press freedoms shouldn’t preclude the development of other media in Sudan, a forum in Khartoum on journalism’s digital revolution heard on Saturday. TEDx Khartoum founder Anwar Dafa-Alla speaks at (...)
- Friday 3 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans frontières
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On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders is releasing an (...)
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