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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 (...)
- Wednesday 30 January 2013
Reporters Without Borders
30 January 2013
World Press Freedom Index 2013 - Africa
East Africa: journalists’ graveyard
In Somalia (175th, -11) 18 journalists were killed, caught up in bomb attacks or the direct targets of murder, (...)
- 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 (...)
- Friday 16 May 2008
May 15, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese authorities conducted a raid on a daily newspaper yesterday and ordered its closure on the grounds that it published military information. Sudanese MIG-29 during a military parade in Khartoum (...)
- Tuesday 22 February 2011
February 21, 2011 (JUBA) – The Citizen newspaper claims its Juba office was raided in Sunday night by four security men in plain
clothes according to its Monday edition. The Citizen Chairman of Board and Editor in Chief in Juba. Dec. (...)
- Sunday 26 October 2008
October 25, 2008 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities arrested a Darfur journalist and keep him incommunicado since two weeks ago for translating comments by a displaced during the visit of a Qatari official to the region on October 11. (...)
- Tuesday 8 September 2009
By Ahmed Elzobier
September 7, 2009 — It seems Muslim women are wearing both too much and too little, a paradoxical symbol of our time. They can be lashed in Sudan, banned from university in Turkey, expelled from state schools in (...)
- Wednesday 22 June 2005
KHARTOUM, June 22 (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities arrested three southern Sudanese journalists on Wednesday and jailed them for not having the right paperwork, their lawyer and editor said.
The three reporters work for the Juba Post, (...)
- Wednesday 2 July 2003
"The Sudanese government and the National Security Agency must put an end to the confiscation or suspension of local newspapers. The intimidation and harassment of journalists with the attempt of restricting the freedom of the press (...)
- Friday 26 August 2011
Committee to Protect Journalists
Sudanese government continues to target press freedom
New York, August 23, 2011-The Committee to Protect Journalists is disturbed by the continued violations of press freedom in Sudan. In August, (...)
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