Sudanese Forces Arrest Journalists NASR Yaqoub and Mohamed Ahmed Nazar in North Darfur

Sudanese Forces Arrest Journalists NASR Yaqoub and Mohamed Ahmed Nazar in North Darfur

New York -- Members of the Sudan Liberation Movement-Transitional Council (SLM-TC), an armed group affiliated with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), arrested freelance journalists Nasr Yaqoub and Mohamed Ahmed Nazar on Monday, July 7, from a shop in Abu Shouk Camp market in El-Fasher, North Darfur.

Sudanese forces arrest journalists Nasr Yaqoub and Mohamed Ahmed Nazar in North Darfur - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, July 8, 2025—Members of the Sudan Liberation Movement–Transitional Council (SLM–TC), an armed group affiliated with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), arrested freelance journalists Nasr Yaqoub and Mohamed Ahmed Nazar on Monday, July 7, from a shop in Abu Shouk Camp market in El-Fasher, North Darfur.  The arrest followed an incident on July 5 in which a member of the same group allegedly shot at Yaqoub after he refused to surrender a Sta…

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Joint rebel forces arrest two journalists in Darfur’s Abu Shouk camp

Two Sudanese reporters were seized on Monday by joint forces from rebel movements aligned with General al-Burhan’s army (SAF) in Abu Shouk displacement camp, north of El Fasher, North Darfur, eyewitnesses told Darfur 24. Fighters from the Sudan Liberation Movement-Transitional Council (SLM-TC) detained journalist Nasr Yaqoub and colleague Mohamed Ahmed Nizar at Yaqoub’s stall in the camp market and took them to the movement’s El Fasher headquart…