Stories and Articles About Our Work

  • Dominic Santo: Returning Home, in Divided Sudan

    Monday, June 20, 2011
    Dominic Santo greets a relative

    It’s early morning at Juba International Airport and 42-year-old Dominic Santo is nervous. Today, after almost three decades, he will board a plane taking him home. Dominic is the station manager of Radio al Mujtama fi Kurmuk, a community radio station in Blue Nile State launched and supported by Internews. He is traveling to his home in Warrap State, which he has not seen for more than 27 years. Read more »

  • Gay Kenya Launches News Website

    Monday, June 13, 2011 - Gay Kenya Trust

    The gay and lesbian communities now have an opportunity to tell their stories in their own way, thanks to a new joint initiative. Gay Kenya, Kenya’s only exclusive gay identifying men’s group and AFRA-Kenya, a lesbian, bisexual and trans women group, with the support of Internews has launched an online newspaper as part of the initiative.

    The project saw 14 participants, drawn equally from Gay Kenya and AFRA Kenya undertake a one week journalism crash course at the Internews offices on I&M Building, Kenyatta Avenue. Read more »

  • Aid Agencies Must Do More to Help Refugees Communicate Back Home

    Sunday, June 12, 2011 - Interdependent

    In early April, Dgihi, a 37-year-old mother of 10, fled her Côte d’Ivoire village when it was attacked by rebels during the months-long conflict seizing the West African nation at the time. She lost track of her husband and two of her daughters in the chaos, and after a week of walking, she and her other eight children waited in a Liberian village, hoping that her family would cross in the same way. She had no other way to reach them. Read more »

  • Kenyan online gay forum launched

    Friday, June 10, 2011 - BBC News

    In Kenya, an online forum is being launched by the gay community to share stories and personal experiences and tackle the anti-gay prejudice common in the region.

    The hope is of raising awareness, shattering the stigma and providing support for those who have been alienated because of their sexuality.

    Watch a video Read more »

  • For Haitians, Radio is Key Information Source on Cholera

    Thursday, June 9, 2011
    Camp residents collect water

    In an effort to determine the effectiveness of a communication campaign on cholera, a team of Haitians trained in audience research methods by Internews’ Deputy Country Director, Jennifer Mandel, surveyed and conducted focus groups with Haitians in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and in rural and urban areas, particularly in the parts of Haiti where the outbreak in December 2010 was most severe. Read more »

  • Mayardit FM in Southern Sudan Responds to Humanitarian Crisis

    Friday, June 3, 2011
    A woman is interviewed by a Mayardit reporter

    “It was a few minutes to 8am and I was still in bed, my neighbor’s radio was on and we were listening to some Dinka music on Mayardit FM,” said Malueth Thiep, who fled the fighting in Abyei. “Then this lady called Monica Nyanyai started reading names of children that had been lost and found. I heard her mention my son’s name and that he was in Akoc. I got out of bed immediately and rushed to the station. Once I arrived they confirmed that indeed someone had called the station and said that he had my son.” Read more »

  • From The Front Lines: A Simple Poster Might Have Saved These Libyan Boys

    Friday, June 3, 2011 - Mediaite

    On the floor of a cargo hold in a ship evacuating casualties from the Libyan city of Misrata, 14-year-old Ayman Abdulatif was mute on his makeshift hospital bed. He had no hands, and his wrists were wrapped in heavy gauze.

    Ayman’s cousin, Mahmoud, was nearby, under a thick blanket that hid his own devastating injuries. Doctors said he has lost his genitalia, and has severe damage to his abdomen. Read more »

  • Young Journalists in Libya Look to the Future

    Thursday, June 2, 2011

    Their work is emblematic of the recent explosion of civil society across Eastern Libya, and the challenges they face as  new freedoms present unprecedented opportunities. 

    Shabab Libya FM is a volunteer-run radio station focusing on civil society issues and youth, separate from politics and the war effort.
    "We are fighters, but in our own way," said Tamir Aljehani, one of the founders of the station. Read more »

  • Local Media Needed to Explain Risks in Libya

    Tuesday, May 31, 2011
    A child in the hospital with injuries

    (Benghazi, Libya) – On the floor of a cargo hold in a ship evacuating casualties from the Libyan city of Misrata, 14-year-old Ayman Abdulatif was mute on his makeshift hospital bed. He had no hands, and his wrists were wrapped in heavy gauze.

    Ayman’s cousin, Mahmoud, was nearby, under a thick blanket that hid his own devastating injuries. Doctors said he has lost his genitalia, and has severe damage to his abdomen. Read more »

  • Report Shows Internews Radio Stations in Southern Sudan most trusted by communities

    Tuesday, May 31, 2011
    Local residents outside the Naath radio station

    “This extensive research confirms what we hear every day from these communities,” said Deborah Ensor, Internews Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa. “Getting local news and information, in one’s own language, massively impacts people’s lives. These stations really are the heart and soul of their communities.” Read more »