Sudanese journalist Mohammed Amin had been short-listed by One World Media Awards for his reporting on the war in Sudan, including the bloody siege of Al Fasher, North Darfur.
Amin is an award-winning journalist and correspondent for the Middle East Eye (MEE), a UK-based media website and channel that primarily focusses on news related to the Middle East, North Africa, and the broader Muslim world.
He has been refused a visa to travel to the UK where he was due to attend and present at the prestigious One World Media Awards journalism awards ceremony in London on Wednesday, 17 June 2026.
According the MEE, Amin was told by the Home Office that his application for an eight-day visa had been refused because it believed he did not have a genuine reason for coming to the UK and that he would not leave the country afterwards.
“There’s a contradiction between British journalists, who consider what is happening in Sudan, and the UK government, which organises conferences about Sudan [in London] but denies visas for journalists,” Amin said, as quoted by the MEE.
In addition, he said that refusing him and other Sudanese entry to the country was evidence of the huge ignorance about the crisis in Sudan, where he said people suffer from war, hunger and displacement.
Amin has been to the UK many times, including to receive other prestigious journalism awards, including the Martin Adler Prize at the Rory Peck Awards on London’s Southbank in November 2022.
This comes shortly after the arrest of a 30-year-old Sudanese man with refugee status in connection with a knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 9 June 2026, triggering widespread unrest and anti-immigrant protests across the UK.
One World Media’s interim director, Chinwe Kalu-Uma, told the MEE, “It is deeply disappointing that Mohammed, nominated for our Journalist of the Year Award, who has at great risk continued to report from inside Sudan so that the world might pay attention, has been denied a visa to travel to London to receive that recognition.
“His absence from our London ceremony is itself a story about the barriers Sudanese people face, not only in their own country, but in being seen and heard beyond it.”
The One World Media Awards recognise the best media coverage from and about the Global South. Stories that break through stereotypes, change the narrative and connect people across cultures. Each year, hundreds of entries from all over the world are judged by our panels of distinguished professionals, carefully selected from the media and non-profit sectors for their wide-ranging experience and expertise.
