Dear friends,
Did you know that right now, civilians are dying and millions more have been displaced in Sudan against a background of total indifference? Since April 15, 2023, Sudan has been in the grip of a violent conflict between the regular army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary. This unprecedented humanitarian tragedy has not received sufficient media coverage, leaving 50 million inhabitants cut off from the rest of the world.
It is almost impossible for journalists to report from the field. Their cameras, microphones and pens can no longer shoot, capture, record or write. Journalists find themselves threatened, harassed, and prevented from reporting on the horrors of this situation. After two years of war, at least seven journalists have been killed, another is missing, and some fifteen media professionals have been detained, two of whom are still in custody. These barriers against reporting the details have only increased the international community's indifference to the situation in Sudan.
This is an international call to action to support those who are documenting what is going on inside the country, at the risk of their own lives, in order to bring global attention back to the situation in Sudan.
Over the past two years, Reporters Without Borders have launched an online training program on physical and digital security for Sudanese journalists, we have provided necessary information on the situation of journalists caught up in the civil war, and we have denounced the killing or detention of journalists in the line of duty.
