by Akim Mugisa and Marvis Birungi courtesy SudanVotes It is rare to hear children reciting their school lessons while helping with housework or playing at home. But thanks to an education initiative called the Learning Village, the new habit might take root in Southern Sudan. The use of interactive radio instruction programmes is one of [...]
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Fi al Mizan Team Defy Censorship in Darfur
[IWPR] More than a million people in Darfur and Chad tune in to weekly justice radio programme. Amid a crackdown on press freedom by the Sudanese government, a radio programme on justice issues, co-produced by IWPR and Dutch-based Radio Dabanga, continues to provide a rare source of impartial news to Darfuris and refugees in eastern [...]
Sudanese-born Canadian May Fly Home on Friday (updated)
[Abyei Town, Abyei Transitional Area, Sudan 40°C] Abousfian Abdelrazik is a man from Montréal whose been living in ‘temporary safe haven’ in the Canadian Embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, since late April 2008. He has been in Sudan since March 2003, when he went to visit his mother. According to a timeline of his [...]
