Sudan's military coup and the stifling of speech | The Listening Post

Sudan’s flirtation with democracy ends in a coup d’etat - how far will the junta go to control what we know about the story?

Contributors:
Mohanad Hashim - journalist
Jonas Horner - deputy director, Horn of Africa, Crisis Group
Yassmin Abdel-Magied, writer and broadcaster
Raga Makawi - editor, Africa Arguments

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Eric Zemmour: The political rise of France’s far-right polemicist
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Contributors:
Rokhaya Diallo - contributor, C8 and The Washington Post newspaper
Christophe Deloire - secretary-general, Reporters Without Borders
Aurelien Mondon - associate professor of politics, University of Bath

00:00 Intro
02:15 Sudan’s military coup
11:13 Myanmar’s military courts sentence journalists
13:39 The political rise of Eric Zemmour
24:48 Endnote