South Africa has dropped to number 31 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders, falling three places from its 2018 ranking.
, has seen reforms in the country which resulted in it moving up 30 places to number 92.
In Sudan , RSF has registered 100 arrests of journalists and scores of confiscations of newspaper issues since late December 2018, which saw the start of the biggest protests in more than 30 years calling forand new elections. Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service continues to seize entire newspaper issues as they come off the press, in part to throttle the publishers economically.
“In what appears to be a deliberate ploy to limit media freedom and access to information, journalists, human rights defenders, activists, civil society organisations and researchers who have spoken out against the attacks and killings are being harassed, intimidated, abducted and arbitrarily detained,” theabout intimidation of those who have spoken out against unrest in the country.
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