“It is still too early to tell whether there is a link [with Kiir’s remarks], but this tragedy will certainly cast a pall over independent reporting in the country as South Sudanese journalists are increasingly forced to self-censor as a means of survival”, Rhodes said.
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Julius’ Colleagues, who gathered at the hospital in the capital Juba where his body was taken on Thursday, said his money and his telephone were reportedly not taken by the gunman after the killing.
Julius is the seventh journalist killed this yr, in a rustic devastated by a protracted battle between authorities forces and armed teams. “And if anybody among them does not know this country has killed people, we will demonstrate it one day on them”, Kiir told a news conference on Sunday, without elaborating. There was no immediate response to the killing from the police or security forces.
Ateny Wek Ateny said a statement would be issued to clarify President Kiir’s remarks, made at the airport in Juba before he went to Ethiopia for peace talks to end the civil war.Mr Moi worked for South Sudan’s Corporate Weekly newspaper and was killed at about 20:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Wednesday night by unidentified gunmen on the outskirts of Juba.
Oliver Modi, chairman of the South Sudan Union of Journalists, said, “It is very serious that, this year, Peter is number seven who was killed in cold blood”. “I appeal to all the media houses, to all journalists in South Sudan to lay down their pens, their papers and cameras and have three days of mourning”, he said. “Today it is Peter, tomorrow (it) is someone else”, Modi added.
According to him, when Russian Federation suggests some of its ideas to the US, it takes much more time for it to coordinate its decision.
In December 2013, troops loyal to Kiir clashed with those loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar.
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The federal government of the world’s youngest nation on Monday refused to signal a power-sharing deal signed by rebels, regardless of the specter of sanctions and mounting worldwide frustration on the failure to seal a peace accord.
