Sudan: ‘Journalists Under Fire’ Highlights Crucial Role of Media in Wartime

Geneva — As the media landscape in Sudan continues to deteriorate amid ongoing hostilities that have persisted throughout 2024, with an alarming surge in violence against journalists, delegates at ‘Journalists Under Fire‘, a high-level side event to the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday, heard from several speakers the profound importance of independent media, not only to keep the world appraised of the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe, but as a vital lifeline to…