S. Sudanese operatives close newspaper, detain editor

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July 25, 2016 (JUBA) – The editor of an Arabic newspaper has been detained
and the paper shutdown by South Sudan security forces after it published
inaccurate information.
[image: JPEG - 51.3 kb]*Information minister Michael Makuei Lueth (R)
speaks at a media forum as presidential press secretary Ateny Wek Ateny
looks on in Juba on 7 September 2014 (ST)*

The editor of *Al-Watan* newspaper, Michael Christopher was arrested on
Saturday by security operatives and his whereabouts remain unknown.

*Al-Watan* newspaper was ordered to cease publication after it quoted
Information Minister, Michael Makuei, as having confirmed the arrival of
additional peacekeepers from neighbouring countries.

The paper said the troops from Intergovernmental Authority on Development
(IGAD) would arrive Monday 25 July. But that turn out to be untrue and the
paper apologized for the mistake, which it attributed to poor translation
from English to the Arabic dialect.

“All these are our mistakes. The right information is that the government
has formed a committee to receive a team of African Union Security Council
which is expected to arrive today [Monday], Faisal Hassan Lado, the acting
editor for the newspaper.

“We apologize for this inaccurate information that came as a result of
translation,” he added.

*Al-Watan’s* lead story on Saturday with headline “Arrival of African Union
soldiers on Monday” has a quote attributed to the minister.

Lueth, the newspaper reported, said a committee had been constituted to
receive the visiting members AU Peace and Security Council on Monday. The
government committee, he added, would be headed by his cabinet affairs
counterpart, Martin Lomoro.

The Arabic newspaper later published an apology to the information minister
he was wrongly quoted in *Juba Monitor* newspaper, which has remained
closed and its chief editor, Alfred Taban still in detention.

Meanwhile, Bol Deng Mayen has been appointed the new editor of *Al-Watan*,
the newspaper’s management announced on Monday. He replaces the embattled
Michael.

(ST)

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