Journalists in South Sudan are in mourning after a high-profile South Sudanese journalist, Charlton Doki Lonyong, died at the age of 50 following a traffic accident in the capital, Juba.
Doki passed away in hospital after the accident that occurred at around 23:00 local time on Thursday on one of the city’s busiest roads, the family said.
Traffic accidents are common in Juba.
Until his death, Doki was the co-ordinator and editor of VOA’s South Sudan bureau.
Between 2005 and 2007, he was a news editor for the Nairobi-based USAID-sponsored Sudan Radio Service (SRS). He also worked for a number of local and international news outlets in Africa, Europe and America, before joining VOA in 2013.