Celebrations to mark World Press Freedom day in South Sudan were postponed for the funeral of former BBC reporter Alfred Taban, who died last weekend in Uganda aged 62.
Taban was also the founder and former editor-in-chief of the Khartoum Monitor.
It was Sudan’s first independent English-language paper – launched in September 2000 and renamed the Juba Monitor after South Sudan became independent in 2011.
He gave up journalism and took up politics in 2017 and became a member of parliament.
Taban was regarded as a champion of media freedom in South Sudan.
His daughter has tweeted that the way to honour him is through bringing unity and peace to South Sudan. The country is still fractured by a civil war that began in December 2013.