A new daily Arabic-language newspaper has appeared on streets of South Sudan capital Juba since Saturday.
Al-Wihda (Unity) is published by Light Media, a private company owned by a group of young South Sudanese journalists.
On the first day of publication, the paper was distributed for free of as a step of a promotion. The newly launched newspaper is headed by editor–in-chief Bohairat Bakhtan with Abraham Malek as chairman.
Leadership of the paper say they want to promote unity and co-existences among the South Sudanese.
The paper comes out few weeks after another new Arabic newspaper, El Tabeer, was forced to close down by National Security Services after the the paper published an article annoyed them. One of their reporters is behind bars on undisclosed charges.
File photo: newspapers in Khartoum (SUNA)
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