SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan to list media outlets owned by former govt officials

1/11/19: Radio Dabanga - Sudan to list media outlets owned by former govt officials

 Radio Dabanga reports that Sudan’s Minister of Information and Culture Faisal Mohammed Salih said that measures have been taken to list media institutions owned by former state officials, with his ministry filtering media outlets set by officials of the former National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS).

 Salih also pointed to similar measures taken against individually-owned media institutions, yet financed by the former ruling National Congress Party and the Islamic Movement. He said the state may take over the outlets or liquidate them, with the proceeds going to the state treasury.

 He added “we welcome local media and will facilitate their work as much as possible,: announcing that the political security constraints on media during Omar al-Bashir’s leadership have vanished.