Sudan Bukra and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have reacted to the killing of  journalist Halima Idris by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Omdurman 

Development Diaries reports that the Sudan Bukra journalist was run over by an RSF vehicle ‘while reporting for the media channel on Tuesday afternoon’.

‘We want to know the truth and demand an independent criminal investigation into the circumstances of the incident’, Sudan Bukra said in a statement.

Idris actively covered the conflict in Sudan, risking her life to provide updates from the nation’s capital, Khartoum

‘She was the only reporter left covering the war and the patriotic work carried out by young people in the Ombadda Emergency Rooms and in the hospitals and health centres still operating’, the statement read.

‘She had just finished covering a subject coverage and was on her way to another place, when the RSF vehicle killed her’.

Since the outbreak of the war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF, journalists in Sudan have faced assaults, threats, enforced disappearances, and detentions

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