Juba
Akobo
Western Bahr el Ghazal
Places in South Sudan where journalists were killed. A gold pin marks the location of murders. A red pin stands for overlaps. Gudele is a suburb of Juba, the pins overlap.
South Sudan, located in northeast Africa, has seen the number of slayings of journalists jump since the start of the South Sudanese Civil War in 2013. The number of journalists killed in 2015 jumped to seven, the most in a single year in South Sudan's history.[1][2] After President Salva Kiir made threatening comments about journalists, journalist Peter Julius Moi was killed, and press freedom groups responded critically to his statements. Reporters Without Borders, a group that monitors the safety and rights of journalists worldwide, ranked South Sudan as 125th for press freedom out of a possible 180 nations.[1] No one has been charged with any of the killings.
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