September was a bad month for Nhial Bol, editor and owner of Sudan’s The Citizen newspaper. Shut down by the national government Bol had to move printing from Khartoum to the Ugandan capital of Kampala, nearly 2,000 kilometers away, and completely restructure his company. The newspaper business has never been easy in a country strangled by war, dictatorship and a complex ethnic and political make up and The Citizen has been through a myriad of troubles before, including forced closures and censorship. And like most of the other few South Sudanese-owned and orientated papers Bol has struggled in the South’s narrow, post-conflict economy to get a good advertising base for the paper, well trained journalists and some kind of a decent readership. But Bol is passionate about getting information and news to his people, who had been deprived of such access by decades of war. A well-known maverick figure in
