''Al Ayam'' is a daily Sudanese newspaper. It is the oldest independent newspaper in Sudan. ''Al Ayam'' was founded by

Mahjoub Mohamed Salih Mahjoub Mohamed Salih (12 April 1928 – 13 February 2024) was a Sudanese journalist. He was awarded the 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom. Biography Salih became a journalist in 1949 after joining the Sudanese independence movement from Egypt. He found ...

in 1958. Twice closed by the Sudanese government during the 1960s, it became a product of it in 1970. Salih did not publish it again until 1986. It was again closed from 1989 to 2000. In 2004, it was again closed, primarily for its reporting on the crisis in Darfur.{{Cite encyclopedia, last=Shinn, first=David H., title=Information Media, editor-last=Berry, editor1-first=LaVerle, url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/cs/pdf/CS_Sudan.pdf, encyclopedia=Sudan: a country study, date=2015, publisher=

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, others=, year=, isbn=978-0-8444-0750-0, edition=5th, location=Washington, D.C., pages=271-275, postscript=. {{PD-notice Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan. The Sudanese minister of justice ordered prosecutors in March 2004 to end indefinite closure of newspapers without trial. Nevertheless, Al-Ayamreported instances of harassment by security forces in 2006. As of 2011, ''Al-Ayam'' had a daily circulation of 18,000 to 20,000 copies per day.

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Newspapers published in Sudan Publications established in 1958 1958 establishments in Sudan Arabic-language newspapers