News / / 09.14.16

Associated Press: South Sudan newspaper shut down after corruption report

A South Sudan newspaper says the government ordered its shutdown the day it published a front-page story on a U.S.-based watchdog group’s investigation into corruption by top officials.

An editor of The Nation Mirror, Aurelius Simon Choiee, said Wednesday that the National Security Service did not give a reason for the shutdown. The nationwide publication has a website and prints about 3,000 copies daily.

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