KAPOETA, South Sudan – Loka John sits down on a blue plastic chair in the Singaita 88.3 FM newsroom. The 23-year-old sets his notebook on the table in front of him and flips it open to an empty page. He…
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Peace and Reconciliation in South Sudan begins on radio airwaves
Tagged with: accountability, cattle raiding, Cattle raids in South Sudan, community media, community radio, Didinga ethnic group, Eastern Equatoria, food insecurity, human rights, Internews, Justice in Africa, Kapoeta, media development, Namurnyang state, Radio Singaita, Singaita 88.3 FM, South Sudan, The Radio Community, Toposa ethnic group
Posted in Radio
Posted in Radio
South Sudanese Youth Find Voice and Take Over the Radio Airwaves
Local youth learn media skills for community reconciliation. MINGKAMAN, South Sudan – “I would like to welcome my guests. It’s now time for the new Mingkaman Young Reporters program,” says 100 FM daytime host Deng Daniel Ngor. Four Mingkaman residents,…
Tagged with: community media, Dinka ethnic group, IDPs, Internews, Jonglei state, Lakes state, media development, Mingkaman, Mingkaman 100 FM, Photography, radio, Reconciliation, South Sudan, training, young reporters
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Posted in Print, Radio
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…
Tagged with: Awerial County, Bor, Bor Our Home, cholera, Communicating with Communities, community media, community radio, health, illiteracy in South Sudan, Internews, Jonglei state, Lakes state, media development, Mingkaman 100 FM, Panda Bor, Save the Children, South Sudan, The Radio Community
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Posted in Print, Radio
My Community, My Radio, My Mahad: The story of a Juba IDP settlement
JUBA, South Sudan – “I enjoy doing the radio program because it makes me feel like a journalist. I would like to learn more about journalism,” said 18-year-old Internews trainee, Riak Akech. “There are many things I don’t know. By talking to…
Tagged with: Africa, audio, Boda Boda Talk Talk, Communicating with Communities, community media, conflict, CwC, development, displaced South Sudanese, humanitarian information, ICT4d, ICTs, Information Communication Technologies, Internews, Juba, Kakuma refugee camp, kenya, Mahad, Mahad IDP settlement, media development, memory cards, My Mahad, People in Need, radio, SD card, South Sudan, Terre des hommes, training, War
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Posted in Photography, Print, Radio
Kenya’s Community Reporters
NAIROBI, Kenya – I believe in the power of community media to transform communities. In my home country, due to the National Film Board of Canada’s Challenge for Change program from the 1960s to 80s, marginalized Canadians came together to…
Tagged with: community media, Ghetto Mirror, Kennedy Odede, kenya, Kibera, Mathare, Mathare Radio, media development, nairobi, Shofco, Wairimu Gitau
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Posted in op-ed, Photography, Print, Radio
The Arusha Declaration 2.0: A new #media protocol for #pressfreedom in #Tanzania
Dr. Ayub Rioba is a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. At the World Press Freedom Day conference in Arusha, Dr. Rioba produced a document known as the “Arusha declaration on media protocol…
Tagged with: #media, #pressfreedom, #RightsMedia, #WPFD, Africa, Arusha declaration, Ayub Rioba, community media, media protocol, tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam, World Press Freedom Day
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