{"id":3609,"date":"2014-07-05T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T03:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2014-07-05T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T03:33:40","slug":"south-sudan-denies-imposing-media-ban-on-federalism-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudan-denies-imposing-media-ban-on-federalism-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan denies imposing media ban on federalism debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA &#8211; The South Sudanese government on Wednesday responded to a letter from media seeking clarification on reports that it was censoring public debate over a federal system of governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation minister Michael Makuei [Lueth] has responded to our letter today (Wednesday), clarifying that the government did not censure it,\u201d Nhial Bol Akeen, editor-in-chief of The Citizen newspaper told Sudan Tribune on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Akeen, pointed out that government agents had so far refused to lift current restrictions despite Lueth\u2019s clarification&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article51556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"South Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/\">South Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA &#8211; The South Sudanese government on Wednesday responded to a letter from media seeking clarification on reports that it was censoring public debate over a federal system of governance. \u201cInformation minister Michael Makuei [Lueth] has responded to our letter today (Wednesday), clarifying that the government did not censure it,\u201d Nhial Bol Akeen, editor-in-chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[258,256,2144,4695,2145,257,254,4700,733],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-censoring-public-debate","tag-east-africa","tag-federal-system-of-governance","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}