Sudan: ‘90% of Media Infrastructure Wiped Out By War’

Cairo — The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate (SJS) report that the war in Sudan has decimated the country’s media sector, destroying 90 per cent of its infrastructure and displacing around a thousand journalists. Many media institutions were systematically looted, forcing journalists to flee or seek work in other professions, according to statements made at the SJS conference in Cairo on Tuesday.

Eman Fadul, Secretary of Freedoms at the SJS, outlined these challenges, stating that “80 per cent of…