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  1. Children playing in Bentue where this can be risky business with dropping bombs lately

    SOUTH SUDAN: THE RAINS THAT CREATE A SMALL WALL OF PEACE

    16 May 2012 14:51 BST | Comments (0)

    World Vision - East Africa / Geoffrey Kalebbo Denye | Africa Views

    Children run and play as the skies above Leer airstrip in Unity State of South Sudan rumble. The clouds swell, it slowly gets...

  2. Day in the Life of a Zimbabwean Journalist in South Africa Robyn Kriel

    30 April 2012 07:03 BST | Comments (0)

    Robyn Kriel | TrustMedia partner blog

    “When there’s coffee: drink it, and when there’s a bathroom: use it.” This golden nugget of advice was imparted upon me ...

  3. Jonathan Smith stands on The Strand in London, March 26, 2012. ALERTNET/Julie Mollins

    Epidemiologist uses film in fight against S.Africa gold-mine TB

    30 March 2012 12:50 BST | Comments (0)

    julie-mollins | AlertNet News Blog

    Migrant workers in S. Africa's gold mines contract tuberculosis at a rate 10 times higher than the populations from which ...

  4. Pagan Amum, Secretary General of the Sudan's People Liberation Movement (SPLM), speaks during a news conference in Khartoum December 28, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

    CPJ Blog: Corruption a no-go zone for South Sudan's journalists

    29 March 2012 11:37 BST | Comments (0)

    Tom Rhodes (CPJ) | TrustMedia partner blog

    Last week, South Sudan's ruling party secretary-general, Pagan Amum, won an important court battle, absolving him from ...

  5. A picture of former South African President Nelson Mandela is seen on memorabilia sold in Bloemfontein January 6, 2012. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

    CPJ: Remembering Henry Nxumalo, pioneer under apartheid

    19 March 2012 14:59 GMT | Comments (0)

    Mohamed Keita | TrustMedia partner blog

    Just over 55 years ago, on New Year's Eve 1957, trailblazing South African journalist Henry Nxumalo was murdered while ...

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