ARUSHA, Tanzania – The radio speaker cackles with static as Rotlinde Achimpota turns the dial, before stopping at 93 FM ̶ Mambo Jambo Radio, affectionately known to its listeners as MJ. The voice of a young broadcaster is heard reporting…
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Tanzanian journalist benefits from Canadian capacity building efforts
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, agricultural radio, Arusha, Beep for Weather, capacity building, farm radio international, farm radio program, human rights, ICT4d, investigative journalism, Journalists for Human Rights, kilimo na jamii, Mambo Jambo Radio, MJ radio, Rotlinde Achimpota, tanzania, Young Farmers
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#PressFreedom in 2013: An Overview
211 journalists were jailed worldwide in 2013, following the highest number ever recorded the previous year: 232, says the press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ. These statistics prove the state of press freedom around the world has…
Tagged with: #pressfreedom, #RightsMedia, 2013, a review, Al-Jazeera, Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, Egypt, Ethiopia, IWMF, journalists in prison, Journalists killed, press freedom, Reeyot Elemu, RSF, Turkish journalists
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Tanzanian Women In Action For Development
ARUSHA, Tanzania – When a six-year-old girl named Salma, accompanied by her grandmother, entered Maria Mushi’s office in Arusha claiming she hadn’t been payed for work as a housemaid, this 55-year-old sprang into action. Mushi listened to Salma’s case and decided to…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Arusha, arusha city council, Babati, Chadema, child labour, GBV, Gender-based violence, human rights, International human rights day, Ngarenaro, paralegals, poverty, tanzania, Women in Action for Development, women's issues
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The slum series – Voice of Kibera
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kibera is known as Africa’s largest slum. It’s located in Nairobi, Kenya and home to a new media renaissance. Featuring the voices of Vincent Achuka, editor and journalist at the Ghetto Mirror, Sande Wycliffe, programmer at the…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Africa, change, Ghetto Mirror, journalism, kenya, Kibera, media development, Mtani Insight, nairobi, new media, newspaper, online news platform, renaissance, slum series, Voice of Kibera, youth
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Posted in Radio
The slum series – Welcome to Arusha
ARUSHA, Tanzania — Driving from Arusha’s Impala roundabout to the suburb of Njiro, a relic of a railway cuts across the road, almost acting as a demarcation line between extreme wealth and extreme poverty in this city. On one side…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Arusha, Arusha town, human rights, Impala roundabout, Njiro, Olorien, P.P.F., poverty, railway, slum series, slums, tanzania, Unga limited, Welcome to Arusha
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The slum series – Moshi’s social reality
MOSHI, Tanzania — “Shikamoo Mama Kishe,” a girl says as she balances a bucket of water on her head, crossing the railway line. This is the ultimate form of respect in the Swahili language, and a way to greet elders…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, children's rights, garbage, human rights, Kaloleni, landfill, Mama Kishe, Moshi, Njoro, Social Reality Tour, tanzania, The slum series, waste
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#RightsMedia story: A safe home for abused Tanzanian girls
ARUSHA, Tanzania — Welcome to Pippi House. Karibu sana. Please feel at home. This is Tanzania’s only safe house for abused and homeless girls, founded in 2011 by Aristides Nshange. After spending five years establishing a place for street kids in…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, abuse, Aristides Nshange, Arusha, children's rights, education, Girls Foundation of Tanzania, Pippi Foundation for Girls, Pippi House, poverty, Tannzania, Watoto Foundation, women's rights
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RightsMedia report: @MJ93fm Empowering girls with education in Tanzania
A feature story by Mambo Jambo Radio 93.0 FM Arusha’s Rotlinde Achimpota. Airing Aug. 22, 2013 on MJ FM’s Matukio ya siku program. Shukuru means to give thanks in the Swahili language. The organization’s pilot project is run in a village…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Arusha, chicken farming, Empowering Tanzanian girls, human rights, Jo Longanilla, Mambo Jambo Radio, Matukio ya siku, radio, Rotlinde Achimpota, Shukuru, tanzania, The most trusted radio
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#RightsMedia story: St Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes
ARUSHA, Tanzania — Every Monday morning as the sun rises, 8-year-old Kelvin Mushi wakes up and puts on his neatly-pressed powder blue dress shirt along with his navy blue sweater and pants, the iconic uniform at The School of St…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Arusha, education, Form Four examinations in Tanzania, Gemma Sisia, poverty, school, St Jude's, tanzania, The School of St Jude
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