{"id":232215,"date":"2026-05-03T04:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-media-defiant-at-govt-directive-to-regularise-legal-status-by-1-june-or-face-legal-action\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:08:14","slug":"sudan-media-defiant-at-govt-directive-to-regularise-legal-status-by-1-june-or-face-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-media-defiant-at-govt-directive-to-regularise-legal-status-by-1-june-or-face-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Media Defiant At Govt Directive to &#8216;Regularise Legal Status By 1 June&#8217; or Face Legal Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"86\">Khartoum \/ Amsterdam \u2014 <em>Sudanese media organisations have strongly condemned a directive* issued to all media outlets by Sudan&#8217;s Ministry of Culture, Information, Antiquities and Tourism, giving them a one-month deadline to obtain official operating licences or &#8220;face legal action&#8221;. The move the government says is aimed at &#8220;restoring professionalism and order to the sector&#8221;, comes as Sudan continues its relentless slide to the bottom of global press freedom rankings, currently rated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/media-under-fire-sudan-slides-to-161-180-in-2026-world-press-freedom-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">161 out of 180&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010008.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>Khartoum \/ Amsterdam \u2014 Sudanese media organisations have strongly condemned a directive* issued to all media outlets by Sudan&#8217;s Ministry of Culture, Information, Antiquities and Tourism, giving them a one-month deadline to obtain official operating licences or &#8220;face legal action&#8221;. The move the government says is aimed at &#8220;restoring professionalism and order to the sector&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":232216,"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":[6394,258,256,23660,9137,7127,4357,7486,6393,4959,257,30617,254,8912,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-232215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defiant","tag-directive","tag-face","tag-govt","tag-june","tag-legal","tag-media","tag-news","tag-regularise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-status","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/232215","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=232215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}