Silenced ARTICLE 19

With western media outlets dubbing the conflict in Sudan a “forgotten war”, what role do journalists play in making sure the world doesn’t look away?
On the morning of 15 April 2023, Al Jazeera’s Sudan correspondent Hiba Morgan was up early, preparing to head out on a reporting trip northwest of the capital Khartoum. 
There had been something in the air for months; a sense that a feud between two generals - one from the Sudanese army, and the other from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF - was about to come to a head. But nobody could have known the scale of the war that was about to unfold around them. 
In this episode, Nicola talks to Hiba, the last remaining international correspondent based in Khartoum. She describes the atrocities she has witnessed, the complexities of verifying information when the situation is unclear and changing rapidly, and the determination to continue reporting from inside Sudan.
Presented by Nicola KellyProducer: Kevin Caners

In the early hours of 7 October 2023, news rolled in which was a completely different scale to anything Israeli photojournalist Oren Ziv had ever covered before. He grabbed his cameras and headed south to the border villages. Not long after that, he and his colleagues came under fire from Hamas militants who had broken through the border wall.

Later, Oren visited the site of the Nova music festival and kibbutz where Israelis had attempted to flee the attacks. He spoke to the families of those taken hostage by Hamas, attended funerals and morgues, and covered the looting of Palestinians' homes in the West Bank.

In this episode, Oren tells host Nicola Kelly about the attacks on 7 October, how it felt to come under fire from Hamas and what it has been like to cover the war from the frontline. 

Presented by Nicola Kelly
Producer: Kevin Caners

How do you report on a war when the war is at home?

In this episode host Nicola Kelly speaks to Al Jazeera Gaza correspondent Youmna ElSayed. 

Youmna describes the challenges of reporting on the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel's devastating bombardment of the beseiged Gaza Strip in the months that have followed. She sets out the personal and professional costs of covering the war, the impact it has had on her family and the moment the Israeli Defence Forces called her home to issue a threat.

Presented by Nicola Kelly
Producer: Kevin Caners

In a new season of 'Silenced', host Nicola Kelly speaks to journalists around the world who have risked it all to report the truth. 
In episode one, Nicola speaks to Youmna El-Sayed, Gaza correspondent for Al-Jazeera, about the Hamas attacks on October 7 2023 and Israel's ongoing bombardment of the Gaza strip. How do you report on a war when the war is at home?
Future episodes include:- Oren Ziv, Israeli journalist and photographer, one of the first to report from the frontline following the October 7 attacks; - Hiba Morgan, Al-Jazeera Sudan correspondent, one of the last Sudanese journalists still reporting from inside the country; - Ann Simmons, Wall Street Journal Moscow Bureau Chief, on the case of her colleague Evan Gershkovich who has been detained in Russia for more than a year on charges of espionage denied by the paper, the US government and Evan's family. 
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Presented by Nicola Kelly.Producer: Kevin Caners.

Alex Chow, a prominent leader of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, describes the fight for democracy, his incarceration and life in exile.

Zahra Joya, an Afghan journalist and the founder of Rukhshana Media, Afghanistan's first female-led media organisation, speaks to Nicola about the day the Taliban retook Kabul; being airlifted to safety; and what it's like running a media organisation while living in exile.