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A GLOBAL SOUTH NETWORK STRIVING TOWARDS A COMMON GOAL
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IN C.A.R., MEDIAS UNDER PRESSURE
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- By PANOS EUROPE
- THE BEACON
In the Central African Republic, medias pay heavily for the unfolding crisis. From March 2013 to the end of May 2014, nearly 50 events against journalist or support staff have been reported, ranging from moral pressure to assasination.
(Continues in French)Pourtant, dans le contexte actuel, l’existence d'une communauté médiatique plus professionnelle et l’accessibilité permanente à une information de meilleure qualité sont autant de conditions nécessaires pour conduire le pays à la paix. Chacun - journalistes, patrons de presse, représentants des médias, opérateurs internationaux de soutien aux médias – souhaite pouvoir jouer son rôle dans des conditions de sécurité acceptables.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SUSTAIN A COMMUNITY RADIO?
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- By Lilian Kiefer / PSAF
- THE BEACON
Community radio stations play a key role in ensuring access to information and freedom of expression, particularly for those communities with limited access to the mainstream media.
FORESTRY: CHANGE MINDSET, SAYS MINISTER.
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- By PANOS EAST AFRICA
- THE BEACON
"Plant a tree to celebrate your birthday, wedding anniversary, plant a birthday tree for Jesus or prophet Mohammed, plant trees to demarcate boundaries of your land or trees, if every Ugandan did this, just imagine how many forests we would have in years to come."
A FAREWELL TO PANOS LONDON
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- By JAMES DEAN
- THE BEACON
Part of an organisation I helped create is no longer going to exist. The panos institute london has announced that it does not have the resources to continue. It’s been struggling for some time, project income appears to have dried up, its executive director has left. Panos london’s trustees have decided understandably that after almost exactly 26 years it needs to fold.
FROM REFUGEE TO WEB DESIGNER, AT DADAAB
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- By Dann Okoth
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Mohammed Bashir Sheik was four when he arrived at Dadaab from Somalia with his mother and sister 18 years ago. The family, along with tens of thousands of others, had fled the civil war in Somalia, looking for refuge over the border in north-eastern Kenya.
FACING THE TALIBANS
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- By Rina Saeed Khan
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In a rundown building in the mountain village of Sijban, girls sit at their desks, hair loosely covered in white or black scarves, staring raptly at their teacher. They say they want to become either doctors or teachers when they grow up.
ESCAPING BRAZIL'S DRUG GANGS
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- By Ana Aranha
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As Marcos Lopes recounts his teenage years as the head of a drug trafficking gang involved in turf disputes in a São Paulo favela, it sounds as if he’s narrating an action movie. Gesturing wildly to give more punch to the story, he laughs at the end of each recollection.
REFRAMING AFRICA'S STORY
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- By Tim Williams
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Close your eyes for one second and think about Somalia. Did any of the following come to mind: the largest livestock market in Africa; a robust agricultural sector; the second largest mobile phone sector in Africa; an economy supported by remittances worth over $1 billion and a business sector assisted by $350 million of investment from Turkey?
LESOTHO: DISPLACEMENT'S HUMAN COSTS
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- By Olivia Bennett
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At the end of 1990s I made my first trip to mountainous, landlocked Lesotho, to set up a Panos London project to record interviews with people who were facing resettlement from their highland communities. The construction of a huge dam the following year would take over their valley; their homes, fields, gravestones and grazing lands would eventually be submerged by its water.
