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…
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South Sudan’s Young Reporters Independence Day Exhibit Displays True Promise
Tagged with: 2016 Juba crisis, Awerial County, independence day, Internews, journalism, media development, Mingkaman, Mingkaman 100 FM, Mingkaman Young Reporters, Multimedia exhibit, Photography, radio, South Sudan
Posted in Print, Radio
Posted in Print, Radio
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.…
Tagged with: Dinka ethnic group, Dinka music, Early and forced marriage, Economic situation, girl child education, inter-communal violence in Rumbek, Lady Peace, Loreto Girls Secondary School, Loreto Journalism Club, media development, radio, Rumbek, South Sudan, Storytelling, women's issues
Posted in Print, Radio
Posted in Print, Radio
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…
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
Posted in Print, Radio
Posted in Print, Radio
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…
Tagged with: Aspiring Journalists, media development, Mingkaman, Mingkaman 100 FM, Multimedia training, young reporters
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Posted in Print, Radio
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…
Tagged with: girl child education, Internews, journalism club, Lakes state, Loreto Girls Secondary School, media development, Mingkaman 100 FM, Multimedia journalism, Rumbek, South Sudan, students
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Posted in Print, Radio
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.”…
Tagged with: #media, Awerial County, Communicating with Communities, communication, humanitarian information, IDPs, Internally displaced people, Internews, Jonglei state, Lakes state, media development, Mer Ayang, Mingkaman, Mingkaman 100 FM, Mingkaman Together, NGOs, radio, South Sudan, South Sudanese
Posted in Print, Radio
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
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
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
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