She was one of a group of young freelance journalists from northern and southern Sudan who acquired professional training to report about current and cultural affairs.
[6] In a 2019 article for the BBC News published before the revolution, she reported about Sudanese women using a Facebook group to share photographs of as yet unidentified sexual perpetrators, where the members of the group then tried to identify and denounce the perpetrators publicly.
[7] Among other issues, Salih has written on Al-Jazeera News about ongoing human rights violations in Sudan's Darfur region,[8] and for BBC News about racial abuse and glorification of past slave traders in Sudan.
She explained, why she and her family did not want to leave the country despite the ongoing battles in the metropolitan area and why she continued reporting from the ground, even in life-threatening situations.
150 years of journalism in Eastern Africa, Salih was described as a "tireless freelance reporter about and beyond the Sudanese Revolution.