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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, out of of a group of 12 youth trained on radio and photography by Internews,…
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South Sudan’s ‘Rising Stars’ of Loreto Girls Secondary School Journalism Club
RUMBEK, South Sudan – It’s 8 a.m. Monday morning at Loreto Girls Secondary School, 10 kilometres north of the violence prone capital of Lakes state. The girls line up in four straight rows for their weekly assembly. Two students march toward the flagpole and unfurl the South Sudan horizontal tricolor flag of black, red and green.…
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Mingkaman Together: A radio special to ease tension in the community
MINGKAMAN, South Sudan – “It’s not about my tribe, it’s not about my cows,” sings Afro-Jazz musician Mer Ayang. “I’ve got lines, I’ve got dots, I’ve got marks on my face. Darling please don’t you see I’m a South Sudanese.” The volume of the song reduces slowly over the radio. The voice of Mingkaman 100…
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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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