{"id":232277,"date":"2026-05-04T04:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-media-under-fire-sudan-slides-to-161-180-in-2026-world-press-freedom-index\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:10:11","slug":"sudan-media-under-fire-sudan-slides-to-161-180-in-2026-world-press-freedom-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-media-under-fire-sudan-slides-to-161-180-in-2026-world-press-freedom-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Media Under Fire &#8211; Sudan Slides to 161\/180 in 2026 World Press Freedom Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Paris \/ Amsterdam \u2014 <em>Sudan continues its relentless slide to the bottom of global press freedom rankings, as the 25th World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders corroborates the unceasing pressure, restrictions, and attacks on journalists and media workers in the country, and the adverse effects of ongoing conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/classement-mondial-2026-par-r%C3%A9gions-une-d%C3%A9gradation-de-la-libert%C3%A9-de-la-presse-dans-100-pays-sur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">25th World Press Freedom Index<\/a> published by international press freedom advocacy group Reporters Without Borders today, Sudan is rated 161st out of 180 countries,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010004.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>Paris \/ Amsterdam \u2014 Sudan continues its relentless slide to the bottom of global press freedom rankings, as the 25th World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders corroborates the unceasing pressure, restrictions, and attacks on journalists and media workers in the country, and the adverse effects of ongoing conflict. In the 25th World Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":232278,"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":[258,256,6600,7636,5222,4959,257,6010,11072,254,4708,1613,5093],"class_list":["post-232277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fire","tag-freedom","tag-index","tag-media","tag-news","tag-press","tag-slides","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-world"],"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\/232277","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=232277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}