The Sudan war has disappeared from the news rader. For two years, reporters trying to cover the conflict between Sudan’s regular army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary have done so at high risk: at least seven journalists have been killed, some fifteen media professionals have been detained, and scores of others have been wounded, threatened, cyberattacked and surveilled. The conference on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan — an initiative by the United Kingdom, the European Union, France and Germany that is scheduled to take place in London on the second anniversary of the war — will aim to secure concrete commitments to enable journalism in the conflict zone, namely independent and safe access to the territory, curbing impunity for crimes committed against journalists, and support for Sudanese media in exile.
