Sudan - Intelligence agency shuts down critical newspaper

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the illegitimate closing of newspaper Al-Tayar by Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). Al-Tayar's journalists think that the closure is a punishment for an editorial in which Editor in chief Mirghani criticized the finance minister's announcement of caps on subsidies for fuel, electricity and wheat, and called for the minister's resignation. The newspaper also quoted the minister as describing Sudan as a “consuming and (...)

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