On Saturday, armed clashes erupted between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces militia led by Muhammad Hamdan Daglo, also known as "Hemedti," raising concerns of a potential slide into civil war. 

Amid ongoing clashes between different armed forces, the Rapid Support Forces attacked Sudan's public television, resulting in the arrest of a journalist and disruption of the broadcast, according to reports on April 15, 2023.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, has warned against Saudi Arabia's attempts to mediate the Yemeni crisis and shift its position from being the main party to the conflict to that of a mediator. 

Women Journalists Without Chains has recently released a report that assessed the condition of freedom of expression and press freedom in Egypt. The report paints a grim picture of Egypt's deeply rooted environment of oppression under the control of military and security leaders.

The questioning of journalists by the Tunisian government before military courts persists, even though such cases should have been handled by the civil judiciary under decrees 115 and 116 that have regulated the media sector since 2011.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) released a report on March 16, 2023, revealing that the Tunisian president, Kais Saied, has imposed a state of emergency in the country since July 2021,

Yemeni teenager, Manar Sultan, has been honored by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights advocate, Tawakkol Karman, for winning first place in an international competition held in Jordan.