SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan social media activists harassed and bribed by authorities

29/11/19: Radio Dabanga - Sudan social media activists harassed and bribed by authorities

 Radio Dabanga reports that Sudanese social media activists said they have repeatedly been harassed, threatened, assaulted, chased away and bribed by the authorities while covering events in Khartoum.

 The activists said that they try to fill “the vacuum in news reporting about sensitive issues that has been created by satellite channels and newspapers still controlled by figures of the former regime”.

 The activist asserted that they have been offered money or a better-paying job in a commercial enterprise, in exchange for not covering events or for covering events opposing the popular uprising.

 “They use the carrot as a weapon,” one of the activists said.