{"id":232068,"date":"2026-05-01T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudanese-journalists-awarded-unesco-press-freedom-prize\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:03:56","slug":"sudanese-journalists-awarded-unesco-press-freedom-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudanese-journalists-awarded-unesco-press-freedom-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese Journalists Awarded Unesco Press Freedom Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">An independent organization for journalists in Sudan has been honoured for its commitment &#8220;to deliver accurate, lifesaving information&#8221; amid the ongoing civil war, the UN educational and cultural agency UNESCO announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate is the latest recipient of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/prizes\/cano?hub=66704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the UNESCO\/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize<\/a> in recognition of the role it has played in condemning the deliberate targeting of media workers in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The fighting between the Sudanese Armed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010143.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An independent organization for journalists in Sudan has been honoured for its commitment &#8220;to deliver accurate, lifesaving information&#8221; amid the ongoing civil war, the UN educational and cultural agency UNESCO announced on Thursday. The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate is the latest recipient of the UNESCO\/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in recognition of the role it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":232069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6534,7636,1654,257,6010,8200,254,1613,7296,5017],"class_list":["post-232068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awarded","tag-freedom","tag-journalists","tag-news","tag-press","tag-prize","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-unesco"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}