Meeting to look for ways to reduce violence and human rights abuses through the judicial process
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Arrested activists released after Sudanese bread protests
Sudan has released more than 80 political activists and students who were detained in the wake of deadly protests
Without democracy Sudan will descent into chaos
Sudan’s political crisis has reached its worst since the coup led by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in June 1989
At Least 79 Arrested Sudanese Protesters Disappear
At least 79 people are currently being detained incommunicado following the government crackdown on popular protests
Sudan Holding Journalists Arrested While Covering Protests
Authorities in Sudan were holding an Agence France-Presse journalist after he was arrested a day earlier
Sudan seizes newspapers after bread price protests
Sudanese security agents on Sunday seized all copies of six newspapers after they criticised the government over soaring bread prices that have almost doubled this week, editors said. Discontent has been simmering over the past few days as bread prices jumped on the back of a sharp rise in the cost of flour after a […]
Why Sudanese newspapers go online for freedom from censors
Seated in his Khartoum office overlooking the Blue Nile, Sudanese journalist Adil al-Baz no longer fears a crackdown by security agents over his articles since he launched an online newspaper. “We are free to publish what we want on our online newspaper,” Baz, a former print newspaper editor, told AFP at the office of Al-Ahdath, […]
VIDEO: Using Poetry to Fight For Sudanese Free Speech
Poetry in a place that regularly ranks towards the bottom in press freedom and free speech
African Presidents Should Not Have Immunity From Prosecution
Nine African countries have signed the Malabo Protocol, but no country’s parliament has ratified it
Why East African Democracy Struggles to Take Root
Analysts say ethnic mistrust and weak governments are undermining the regional response to crises