Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Richard Cockett has been Africa editor of the Economist since 2005. He was previously a senior lecturer in politics and history at the University of London. He is the author of Sudan: Darfur and the Failure of an African State (Yale University Press, 2010)
The forthcoming referendum on independence in south Sudan could lead to the break-up of Africa’s biggest country....