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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 May 2009
May 13, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — The National Congress Party (NCP) said the decision to censure the Sudanese press has been taken jointly with its main partner in the National Unity Government after a complaint from the First Vice President. (...)
- Tuesday 31 October 2006
Oct 30, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — On 16 September 2006, the Foreign Ministry lodged a complaint to the effect that the newspaper had published an article dated 14 September 2006, issue No. 1004, page 4, entitled - Lam Akol fails in mission to (...)
- Saturday 27 March 2004
RSF has welcomed Justice Minister Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin’s initiative to limit suspensions of newspapers to 24 hours, but the organisation called for further reforms to completely abolish such bans.
On 16 March 2004, Yassin said he (...)
- Sunday 11 April 2010
Sudan Democracy First Group
Sudan Elections: The Theatre of the Absurd and the Tomb of Democratization
Press Release No. (3)
April 10, 2010 (KHARTOUM/JUBA) — Tomorrow, April 11, all actors are readying for the absurd performance of (...)
- Sunday 11 November 2007
By Makazu Panskula
November 10, 2007 — Since the shooting incident in Yambio hit the Internet, many critics have lashed at journalists for reporting that the victims were Equatorians and the perpetrators were JIU Dinka soldiers. I (...)
- Tuesday 10 February 2009
By Wasil Ali
February 8, 2009 (WASHINGTON) – Sudanese national security forces expelled a Canadian-Egyptian journalist, Heba Aly, just days after she made an inquiry about domestic arms production. Heba Aly
Aly, a freelance reporter (...)
- Monday 30 January 2012
January 29, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese security authorities on Sunday blocked the publication of a privately owned newspaper without giving any reason, in the latest assault against freedom of press in the country.
Since the start of (...)
- Friday 1 August 2003
Human Rights Watch
(New York, August 1, 2003) The government of Sudan must restore the license of the country’s largest English-language newspaper and allow it and other newspapers to publish freely, Human Rights Watch said today. (...)
- Thursday 23 November 2006
Nov 22, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — The kidnappers of a Sudanese newspaper editor slain in September put him on a "trial" before slitting his throat in a style used to slaughter camels, then decapitated his dead body, the justice minister said (...)
- Saturday 31 October 2009
By James Gatdet Dak
October 29, 2009 (JUBA) – A government’s electronic and print news agency will soon be established in Southern Sudan, says the official spokesperson. A Sudanese man reads a local Arabic newspaper in Khartoum on April (...)
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