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South Sudan’s Young Reporters Independence Day Exhibit Displays True Promise
MINGKAMAN, South Sudan – To celebrate July 9, South Sudan’s fifth independence anniversary, Internews hosted a multimedia exhibit featuring photographs and audio produced by Mingkaman Young Reporters. This is a group of youth from Mingkaman, Awerial County I had trained last January on the basics of photography and radio. The Mingkaman 100 FM journalism trainer,…
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Loreto Girls Journalism Club Reunite and Report from Rumbek on South Sudan’s Economy
RUMBEK, South Sudan – “The first time I heard there was fighting in my village, I felt sad. I wasn’t expecting this to happen,” said Christine Makuer Bol. “I’m trying my best to teach people not to do this again. I call myself Lady Peace to bring peace to South Sudan.” Bol, 19, began writing…
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Peace and Reconciliation in South Sudan begins on radio airwaves
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 scrawls a few notes with his pen. The news meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. Monday…
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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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Mingkaman Young Reporters: South Sudanese Youth Media Training for Local Change
MINGKAMAN, South Sudan – Twelve Mingkaman residents, ranging in age from 17-years-old to 43-years-young, came together for a three-week Internews South Sudan Young Reporters training. All came to learn the basics of radio and photography at Mingkaman 100 FM in January 2016. This is a follow-up to the first South Sudan Young Reporters training last…
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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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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 my elders at Mahad, I can learn so much more.” Mahad is an Islamic primary…
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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 speak truth to power through participatory filmmaking. This tradition now continues in documentary film and…
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