Posted by Reem Abbas on Apr 27, 2012 in Newspapers, Press freedom, Reem Abbas, RSS Syndicated Posts, South Sudan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan
“The press in Sudan is going through the most intense crackdown,” said Adil Color, a writer and editor at Al-Midan newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP). ”If we publish an issue [of the newspaper] that is cr…
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Posted by Brian Dabbs on Apr 16, 2012 in Africa, Brian Dabbs, Ngor Garang, Press freedom, RSS Syndicated Posts, South Sudan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan Tribune
In November last year, Ngor Garang was illegally detained and repeatedly tortured for 18 days in South Sudan’s national security headquarters, located in the country’s interim capital, Juba. His crime: he was the chief editor for a newspaper that…
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Posted by Alex Duval Smith on Apr 12, 2012 in Africa, Angola, José Edouardo Dos Santos, RSS Syndicated Posts, Sub-Saharan Africa
In his 32 years in power, Angola’s President José Edouardo Dos Santos has adopted the maxim, “if you can’t beat them, buy them”. The silence of rappers, journalists and the occasional university professor has been secured for a few…
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