South Sudan

In civil war-torn South Sudan, government censorship seems to have found a new target, Catholic Church-run community radio stations. Just weeks after Radio Bakhita was forced off the air in Juba, the country’s capital, Voice of Hope is now under threat in Wau, the capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal state. Operated under the aegis of the diocese of Wau, Voice of Hope has been told it will be...

Authorities in South Sudan must present journalist George Livio to a court or release him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The reporter for Radio Miraya, a UN-backed station, has been held without charge by security forces for more than two weeks, according to local journalists and news reports. Security agents arrested Livio and U.N. security guard James Lual Tharjiath in Wau...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned South Sudanese authorities' shutdown of the popular Catholic-run Bakhita Radio station in Juba, the capital, on Saturday and the ongoing detention of the station's news editor. Security agents raided the outlet in the morning and arrested four staff members, according to the station's managing director and news reports. Security forces arrested...

Freelance journalist Abraham Agoth has been in hiding in South Sudan since late July. Agoth told the Committee to Protect Journalists that he fled his home in the northern state of Bahr el Ghazal on July 28, fearing arrest. Agoth told CPJ he believes the state's caretaker governor, Kuel Aguer Kuel, was unhappy with his coverage of state security issues for several media outlets, including the US...

South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) should stop seizing and shutting down newspapers as well as harassing, intimidating, and unlawfully detaining journalists, two leading human rights organizations said Friday in a joint report. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said that against the backdrop of an internal armed conflict that has raged for seven months across much of the...

Security forces in South Sudan have harassed journalists and interfered with independent media in the four months since the outbreak of fighting between rival political forces, media officials have told the International Press Institute. Threats and harassment of the media come amid fresh reports of mass killings of civilians in a conflict that erupted in mid-December, derailing hopes for a...