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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The executive director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) has put the Government of South Sudan on notice that threatening journalists, muzzling the media, and limiting freedom of expression will radicalize citizens against the regime.<\/p>\n

According to Edmund Yakani, since the kidnap in Nairobi and alleged repatriation to Juba of Morris Mabior, a rights activist who was seeking asylum in Kenya since 2021, multiple journalists have been getting death threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecently, when journalists started reporting about human rights issues and the kidnapping of the activist Morris Mabior in Nairobi among other abuses, journalists have been receiving threats some of which are death threats,\u201d Yakani charged. \u201cSome of them are acts of interference in the work of journalists and media houses. For example, Sudans Post\u2019s Facebook page has recently been hacked and interfered with to a level that it is shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe are also aware that some journalists are receiving death threats through phone calls which for me is very bad and is a contradiction of certain declarations that were recently made in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yakani cited resolution number 14 of the recently concluded Governors\u2019 Forum which urged all leaders at all levels to ensure that constructive criticism, media freedoms, and freedom of expression are not stifled.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the World and South Sudan celebrate World Radio Day (WRD), and as we are aware that radio plays a very instrumental role in our lives by providing, accurate information which is a very important factor in nurturing peace and stability in society, I would like to take this opportunity to bring to the attention of the political leadership, in particular President Salva Kiir, that journalists play a very important role in our lives,\u201d he counseled. \u201cAlso, when the during the president end of year speech, he declared 2023 a year of reconciliation, forgiveness, and development. We cannot forgive if we cannot reconcile and embrace the fundamental freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot reconcile when we threaten journalists and media houses when they are doing their noble work of providing accurate information that builds peace and stability,\u201d Yakani added. \u201cThis is because if we deny people information and freedom of expression, we are radicalizing them against the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

He urged President Kiir alert cabinet members in their next meeting that the various authorities in the country that interference with the media and threatening journalists is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a need to ensure freedom of expression and that journalists and a free media are allowed to do their work without fear and threats,\u201d Yakani said.<\/p>\n

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