The Sudanese press after separation – Contested identities of journalism
The Sudanese press after separation – Contested identities of journalism - MICT 2012 Contributors: Anke Fiedler, Anja Wollenberg, Magdi El Gizouli, Roman Deckert English editors: Jess Smee, Tammi Coles...
View ArticleMbeki blames media for the confusion in Sudan's cooperation agreement
October 15, 2012 (JUBA) - The chair of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) said media “failure” to inform the public on the vital elements of the cooperation agreement signed last...
View ArticleEritrean journalist's case referred to African rights panel
By Tesfa-Alem TekleOctober 30 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - European jurists have brought the cases of long imprisoned Swedish-Eritrean journalist and activist, Dawit Isaac to the African Commission on Human...
View ArticleSouth Sudan private daily newspaper announces shutdown
October 30, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan's only daily newspaper announced Tuesday that is was being forced to suspend publication as it has been unable to secure the hard currency needed to purchase the...
View ArticleSouth Sudan media protests “disparity” in draft bills
November 7, 2012 (JUBA) - Media groups in South Sudan have expressed deep concern that there are differences between the versions of the country's long-awaited draft media bill circulating in the...
View ArticleRSF launches probe over jamming of exiled Eritrean Radio Station
November 9, 2012 (PARIS) - An international press freedom advocacy group, said on Thursday that it has launched investigation over the acts of piracy perpetrated against an independent Eritrean...
View ArticleSouth Sudan media calls for reflection on “international standards” in draft...
November 11, 2012 (JUBA) – Various South Sudanese media outlets have called on the government to ensure that draft media bills reflect international standards, uphold good governance and spread system...
View ArticleDevelop protection mechanisms, human rights defenders urged
By Julius N. UmaNovember 12, 2012 (JUBA) - Journalists and human rights defenders from the East and Horn of Africa have been urged to work together and come up with mechanisms that will protect and...
View ArticleLakes State suspends editor of state radio station
November 13, 2012 (RUMBEK) - The news editor of Radio Rumbek FM-98, John Madol Panther, has been suspended after allowing the broadcast of items that had not been approved, according to Lakes State...
View ArticleJonglei minister: the media must act responsibly
November 14, 2012 (BOR) - Jonglei's minister of information and broadcasting, Hussein Maar Nyuot, warned independent and government journalists against working with fabricated material which can bring...
View ArticleSomalia, Eritrea among deadliest nations for Journalists - report
November 25, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The East African region has become the globe's second deadliest spot for journalists after the Middle East, according to a new report released by the International...
View ArticleSouth Sudan police authorities investigate killing of political commentator
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...
View ArticleJournalists beaten by police in Juba, UN concerned over death of columnist
December 07, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan police detained three journalists from the Gurtong website on Friday in the capital Juba, two days after a leading political commentator, Isaiah Ding Abraham Chan...
View ArticleGerman NGO hosts media forum in Juba
December 12, 2012 (JUBA) - Germany's Ambassador to South Sudan, Anke Fiedler, opened a three day media forum in Juba on Monday, funded by Germany's foreign office and United Nations Educational,...
View ArticleSouth Sudan parliament debates media laws
December 13, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan lawmakers on Wednesday started deliberations on draft legislation to regulate the young nation's media industry.The bills were presented for the first reading by...
View ArticleCPJ: Eritrea, Ethiopia rank Africa's worst jailer of the press
December 13, 2012 (PARIS) - Eritrea and Ethiopia have respectively become Africa's leading jailers of journalists, according to the jailed Journalists List of 2012 released by the US-based, Committee...
View ArticleSouth Sudan arrests suspects in connection to killing of political columnist
January 3, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan on Thursday announced it has arrested a number of suspects believed to be responsible for the assassination of a leading political commentator, Isaiah Diing Abraham...
View ArticleSouth Sudan release journalists after “interrogations” in Wau
January 7, 2013 (WAU) - South Sudan's security apparatus in its border state of Western Bahr el Ghazal have released two journalists after questioning them for failing to cover President Salva Kiir's...
View ArticleFEATURE: South Sudanese writers live in fear
January 16, 2013 (JUBA) – Following a series of attacks, intimidation and threats, comment writers and bloggers in South Sudan say they are operating in a heightened sense of fear.South Sudanese men...
View ArticleIntelligence service seizes Arab-language daily in latest act of censorship
Reporters Without Borders24 January 2013SUDANIntelligence service seizes Arab-language daily in latest act of censorshipReporters Without Borders strongly condemns the seizure of the Arabic-language...
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