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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).
- Thursday 14 September 2006
Sept 13, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese police official denied the role of al-Qaida in the death of a journalist found beheaded on Wednesday 6 September. He said this unknown organization didn’t provide any evidence to support its (...)
- Monday 28 May 2012
May 28, 2012 (JUBA) — A series of extrajudicial killings, torture, rape, and other inhumane treatment of civilians occurred in South Sudan in 2011 as a result of conflict between the South Sudan army (SPLA) and Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), (...)
- Wednesday 15 August 2012
August 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A Sudanese official has expressed dissatisfaction with the existence of virtual newspapers and media outlets operating without regulation from the state, warning that they represent “a challenge to (...)
- Thursday 6 December 2012
Reporters Without Borders
Press release
6 December 2012
SOUTH SUDAN
Opinion writer gunned down outside Juba home
Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn that Diing Chan Awuol, a leading columnist and critic of South (...)
- Thursday 23 June 2005
JUBA POSTPress-release For more information, contact: Bullen Kenyi 00-249-(0)-9111-67813
JUBA/SUDAN, 22 June 2005 — Three journalists of the
independent Sudanese newspaper The Juba Post have been
arrested in Khartoum by the police (...)
- Sunday 12 June 2011
June 12, 2011 (JUBA) – A senior South Sudanese journalist says his life has been threatened by some elements of the region’s security organs over his consistent criticism of the South Sudan government. Nhial Bol Aken, The Citizen’s (...)
- Tuesday 7 February 2012
February 06, 2012 (JUBA) - A renowned journalist was humiliated and beaten by security guards manning South Sudan’s National Assembly on Monday, eye witnesses told Sudan Tribune.
Mading Ngor, host of the popular ’Wake Up Juba’ show on (...)
- Monday 7 November 2011
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- Monday 8 April 2013
April 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has condemned the removal of the editor-in-chief of an independent Arabic-language daily in the Sudanese capital Khartoum last week, saying it is “appalled” by the country’s (...)
- Friday 12 April 2013
April 11, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern about the safety of Reeyot Alemu, a jailed Ethiopian journalist and teacher.
In a protest letter to Birhan Hailu, (...)
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