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South Sudan: ‘Panda Bor’ Our Home, Our Culture, Our Radio, Our Community
BOR, South Sudan – “When I turn on the radio, my wife immediately switches the dial to Mingkaman FM,” said Daniel Ayuen Manyok, Jonglei state school inspector. Every Sunday evening, listeners in Bor, and across the Nile River in Mingkaman, Lakes state, return home to tune their radio dials in to 100 FM for the…
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South Sudan: Messages from Mahad – Juba IDPs use radio for family reunification
JUBA, South Sudan – Riak Akech wakes up to the sound of the muezzin call to prayer for all Muslims. She’s a Christian, but uses the call as an alarm clock in her small tukul, or hut, which she shares with her aunt and younger cousin. It’s constructed of bamboo and plastic sheets with a…
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South Sudan: Mingkaman 100 FM Bor bureau – Reporting in the time of cholera
BOR, South Sudan – Rhoda Ateng enters the gate at the Bor state hospital carrying her backpack with a radio recorder and headphones inside. She passes a makeshift cholera treatment centre, situated near the hospital entrance. Peace has returned to the restive capital of Jonglei state, but residents’ lives have yet to return to normal.…
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