A radio program in South Sudan helps displaced people communicate with their community and send messages to their loved ones. Riak Akech in Juba, South Sudan wakes up to the sound of the muezzin call to prayer for all Muslims.…
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Messages from Mahad – Using the airwaves to connect with family and friends in South Sudan
Tagged with: displaced people, IDP settlement, Juba, Mahad, South Sudan, South Sudanese
Posted in Print, Radio
Posted in Print, Radio
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…
Tagged with: audio programs, Boda Boda Talk Talk, Bor, humanitarian information service, IDPs, Internally displaced people, Internews, Jonglei state, Juba, Mahad, Mahad IDP settlement, Messages from Mahad, Mingkaman 100 FM, My Mahad, radio, radio for family reunification, South Sudan
Posted in Print, Radio
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
Posted in Photography, Print, Radio
Posted in Photography, Print, Radio
South Sudan’s Hip Hop Artists Call for Peace and Reconciliation Through the Unhip Practice of Farming
JUBA, Aug 28 2014 (IPS) – “What is the benefit when children are crying and people are dying due to hunger? There is no need to cry when you have the potential to dig,” sings Juba-based dancehall reggae group, the…
Tagged with: Addis Ababa peace talks, Africa, agriculture, Artists call for peace and reconciliation, farming, Hip Hop, Juba, peace, South Sudan
Posted in Print
Posted in Print
War Veterans Planting for Peace in South Sudan
JUBA, Aug 21 2014 (IPS) – Along the fertile banks of sub-Saharan Africa’s White Nile, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile River, a war veteran’s co-op is planting for a food secure future in South Sudan, a…
Tagged with: Africa, agriculture, famine, FAO, food crops, food insecurity, former SPLA, Juba, Mennonite Central Committee, Nile River, peace, Simon Agustino, South Sudan, UNMISS, vegetables, war veterans, Werithior Veterans Association, White Nile, Wilson Abisai Lodingareng
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Posted in Print
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