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BBC Monitoring Nigeria's restive north-western Zamfara state has imposed a curfew along its borders with Sokoto and Katsina states in a bid to curb escalating cases of kidnapping in the area.
The world through its media Movement will be restricted between 19:00 and 06:00 local time, the state's Commissioner for Information and Culture Alhaji Mannir Haidara was quoted as saying.
Sudan has suspended three pan-Arab TV stations, accusing them of "unprofessional reporting and “This is to tackle the incessant kidnapping of travellers along the Sokoto-Gusau-Funtua highway," Mr Haidara added.
harmful publishing". Cases of kidnapping for ransom have surged in north-western Nigeria, where armed gangs, locally referred to as bandits, target villages, schools, and travellers.
United Arab Emirates (UAE)-owned Sky News Arabia and Saudi-owned Last month, dozens of schoolchildren were abducted but later rescued in Kaduna state.
Al Arabiya and Al Hadath, which have been affected by the directive, have The criminal gangs continue to carry out mass abductions and demand hefty payments to release victims, even though ransom payments are outlawed in Nigeria.
reported extensively on the civil war and political turmoil in Sudan.
The suspension was prompted by the broadcasters' "lack of commitment to the required professionalism and transparency" and their failure to renew their licences, Information Minister Minister Graham Abdel Gader was quoted as saying.
The UAE-funded Sky News
Arabia’s suspension also stemmed from "harmful publishing", according to local media.
Both Al Hadath and Al Arabiya said they were not officially informed of the suspension and have often renewed their licences.
The suspension comes just days after Sudan's foreign ministry accused
Sky News Arabia of airing a forged militant report.
Relations
between Sudan and the UAE have strained after the Sudanese army and Western
media accused the UAE of supplying weapons to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the nearly
year-long conflict.
The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate (SJS) termed the decision a "clear
violation of freedom of expression and the press".
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