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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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Former child soldier in South Sudan shares story
MALAKAL, South Sudan – 28-year-old Anthony Thon was only 15 when he was captured by the SPLA, Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, and made to fight Khartoum government forces in Sudan’s second civil war. In 2005, after the signing of the CPA, Comprehensive Peace Agreement, he escaped the SPLA and returned to school. After South Sudan…
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Mingkaman FM: Helping to foster peace among cattle keepers
Smoke billows from piles of smoldering cow dung at a cattle camp outside the town of Mingkaman, South Sudan. Children covered in ash dump grain bags full of fresh manure on to the ground, beside their makeshift homes. Once dried by the sun, they throw it on to the burning dung heaps. This keeps mosquitos…
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Bringing Gender Equity to the Airwaves in South Sudan
Tune into 88FM in Malualkon, South Sudan, and likely you’ll hear more than the news and music. You’ll hear the voices of community role models. “I want to be a mirror of my nation,” said Aquilina Adhel, a journalist from Aweil, South Sudan. “I want to be the voice of the voiceless women and children…
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Internews South Sudan training ‘vox pop’ workshop
This is the culmination of a 10-day training for nine South Sudanese women journalists (two with children present) working at Internews community radio stations in South Sudan, known as The Radio Community. On the last day of training, I gave them a “vox pop” workshop on how to edit basic audio. This is the result.
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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 Jay Family, in their latest single “Stakal Shedit,” which means Work Hard in Arabic. In…
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