South Sudan - Opinion writer gunned down outside Juba home

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn that Diing Chan Awuol, a leading columnist and critic of South Sudan's government, was gunned down outside his home in Juba in the early hours of yesterday. An advocate of peace between the two Sudans, Awuol wrote frequent columns for the Sudan Tribune and Gurtong websites and the newspaper Destiny under the pen-name of Isaias Abraham. “His death is a tragic setback to the hopes cherished by South Sudan's defenders of freedom of opinion (...)

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