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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).
- Tuesday 9 April 2013
April 8, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s government-run press council has accused state security services of interfering in its work, issuing an ultimatum to authorities to disband the media body or allow it to fulfil its proper functions. (...)
- Saturday 19 May 2012
May 18, 2012 (RUMBEK) - Police in South Sudan’s Lakes State on Monday 14 May arrested a female journalist working for state-owned Radio FM-98 in Rumbek. Lakes State Police Commissioner Saed Abdulatif Cawuol Lom at Rumbek Airport, South (...)
- Tuesday 13 March 2012
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS
PRESS RELEASE
12.03.2012
New list of Enemies of the Internet
Beset by online surveillance and content filtering, netizens fight on
Eritrea is among the list of "countries under surveillance"
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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 (...)
- Sunday 10 February 2013
February 9, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - An international press freedom watchdog has denounced an Ethiopian court hearing after a judge on Friday renewed charges against a journalist who is facing multiple charges in connection to articles he (...)
- Monday 30 April 2007
29 April, 2007 (JUBA) – The Juba Post’s manager Hildebrand Bijleveld has suspended four journalists including the Editor-in-Chief Bullen Kenyi and the chief accountant at the main office in Juba on Friday.
The suspended journalists told (...)
- Wednesday 7 July 2010
July 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in Sudan announced on Tuesday that it has indefinitely shut down a newspaper saying it has been encouraging secessionist tendencies in the North and South (...)
- Thursday 23 June 2005
The Juba PostPress Release
JUBA, 23 July, 2005 — The Attorney-General of the Government of Sudan closed down The Juba Post newspaper today, claiming the publication has operated without fulfilling the registration laws of the National (...)
- Tuesday 6 November 2007
Sudan Organisation Against Torture
Human Rights Alert
Harassment of Journalists and Human Rights Defenders in Khartoum
November 5, 2007 — SOAT is deeply concerned about the harassment of three journalists and human rights defenders (...)
- Thursday 30 August 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
August 29, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia has freed an editor of Feteh, a leading independent weekly newspaper, who had been jailed following the publication of information about the health of the late Prime (...)
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