The Hidden Toll of Reporting on the Sudanese Civil War
In June 2023, Nader Shilkawi, a thirty-four-year-old journalist working with the Sudan Radio and Television Corporation, was returning home from a reporting trip when he was seized by members of a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces. The group—a party in a brutal civil war that has torn the country apart since April 2023—accused the reporter of working with the Sudanese army to monitor its movements. “I was subjected to torture in detention,” Shilkawi said recently via a WhatsApp message. “I was beaten. I received threats.”
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