Sudan bans Saudi's Arabiya, Al Hadath, UAE's Sky News Arabia
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The country cites the channels' lack "of commitment to the required professionalism and transparency" and failure to renew needed licenses.
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A general view shows the Foreign Ministry building in the Sudanese capital Khartoum (AFP)
Sudan suspended the work of three foreign news broadcastors, citing their lack of adherence to the country's media requirments.
The channels are the Saudi Arabia's state-owned channels Al-Arabi and Al-Hadath, in addition to the UAE-owned Sky News Arabia.
The ban comes to due to their lack of commitment to the required professionalism and transparency and failure to renew its licenses," Sudan's state news agency SUNA reported citing the Information Minister.
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The Sudanese Ministry of Culture and Information issued a statement detailing the suspension of the outlets and instructed the relevant authorities to implement the decision accordingly.
In April 2023, a war erupted in Sudan between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who leads the Rapid Support Forces.
The daedly conflict has left tens of thousands dead, and more than eight million displaced from their homes, which has made it the world's largest displacement crisis.
Human rights organizations have warned than 18 million Sudanese are struggling with acute food insecurity, a record during harvest season, and 10 million more than at this time last year, while 730,000 Sudanese children are predicted to be suffering from severe malnutrition.
The United Nations' World Food Programme last month that Sudan's almost year-long war "risks triggering the world's largest hunger crisis."
The country director of Save the Children' declared in March that bombing and destruction of fields and factories have plunged Sudan into "one of the worst" nutrition situations in the world.
Arif Noor warned that "about 222,000 severely malnourished children and more than 7,000 new mothers are likely to die" under the current levels of funding which "only covers 5.5 percent" of Sudan's total needs.
