Africa: J’activists – the Hybrid Nature of Conflict Journalism in Sudan’s ‘Silent War’

Female activists are filling the reporting gap in Sudan, but this raises concerns about credibility, protection and oversight.

Sudan’s ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, increasingly viewed as a proxy war driven by competing geopolitical interests, has triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

It also highlights a hybrid form of war reporting of what some, lamenting the dearth of international media coverage, see as a ‘silent conflict’. This…