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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Free media still on hold in South Sudan
by Marvis Birungi courtesy SudanVotes As Southern Sudan engages in the complex process of state building, free media seems to be one aspect the government needs to allocate more attention to. The Citizen, the only newspaper printed in the South, was subject to a police raid last Sunday. With Southern Sudan soon to become an [...]
Radio Miraya journalist arrested in Yei, Sudan
by Akim Mugisa courtesy SudanVotes As the Referendum approaches it is a busy time for Sudan’s media houses – and a tense time with many political interests at stake. Miraya FM journalist Isaac Moro, while working in Yei, was wrongly mistaken for Khartoum Government spy, and arrested. A senior radio journalist working with Foundation Hirondelle [...]
Are journalists being respected by politicians in Sudan?
by Bonifacio Taban courtesy SudanVotes How are our journalists and our children being treated? It has taken quite some time for us to dig any information from our local politicians all over the country. Sudan in general is a special case, since the country has two ruling systems of governance. That is to say the [...]
Arrest, detention & sacking of Bonifacio Taban – in his own words
by Bonifacio Taban, courtesy SudanVotes Bonifacio Taban has been freed after 13 days detention in Bentiu State Prison, without charge. This morning he was sacked by Bentiu FM with immediate effect. Following the shooting dead of four Angelina Jany Teny supporters on Friday 23rd April 2010 in Bentiu, after the NEC announced that incumbent Governor [...]
