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Sudanese Returnee is a blog by a Southern Sudanese who fled the war and insecurity in Sudan in the 90’s, seeked asylum in a western European country and has now decided to go back home.
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Sudanese Returnee is a blog by a Southern Sudanese who fled the war and insecurity in Sudan in the 90’s, seeked asylum in a western European country and has now decided to go back home.
Your voice is both moving and informative. I’m interested in speaking to you about an interview on GroundReport TV and writing for GroundReport.com– please get in touch!
Thanks
Rachel
Dear SR,
I’m stunned by your description of Juba. I’ve been in the South this year but not to Juba. Please go on with your blog. I bookmarked the page and look forward further blogging.
Thankyou.
Hey SR, I love reading your blog and was wondering if you could email me or tell me where I can email you? I have a project in mind but needs lots of feedback from people that are in the South and would like to hear your thoughts on it.
Take care!
I really hope that you’re keep most of this material saved away. Because this is book material. Very revealing and earnest reflections. Going home is never really a homecoming because you inherently become an outsider after leaving home.
Colin
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You can delete this after reading the above comments. Question: Would you be willing to be a guest on Diaspora Sudanese podcasts. I’d love to have you on the show. If privacy is a concern I can do create a pseudonym for you.
Thanks for the insights. That said
I miss your writing.
Where u @?
Demotix- The Citizen Wire
Dear SR,
You’re site is fantastic. We hope you might see a cross over with what we’re launching!
Demotix is a website for user-generated news, and a citizen ‘wire’ service. Think of it like Flickr or YouTube, but only for original photo/video news. You tell us what is going on, we tell the worldwide web and the world’s mainstream media. As of now, http://www.demotix.com is live.
Why are we doing it?
We believe citizen journalism – well-managed – can be a tremendous force in political participation, civil society, and freedom of speech around the world. And we believe the media needs rescuing.
• Only four US newspapers have foreign news desks (the NY Times, LA Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal), and there are only 141 US foreign correspondents currently working today (in print and broadcast media)
• In the UK, a 2006 study of the broadsheets showed that more than 50% of the news was directly attributable to press releases
• The world’s media (over 90%) relies on the wire services – the Associated Press and Reuters – for their news. But some 80 countries, or 40% of the world’s nations, have no bureau from either agency.
The news is shrinking daily. We hope Demotix can plug that gap, and more.
We hope to be giving a megaphone to the man and woman in the street with a story to tell. We hope to be able to change the news map – bringing real, raw, original information from countries and about issues the mainstream media haven’t touched in years.
Eventually we hope that Demotix will be THE place where anyone in the world can go, in safety, to upload news – major, minor, local, cultural, political, social… We already have agreements with the Daily Telegraph, Newsweek, La Repubblica, Prospect and others – and will now supply them with a daily wire and picture feed of ‘citizen’ news. We have also built partnerships with Amnesty, Reporters Sans Frontieres, Witness and many others.
But we need your help. We want to do in pictures/video what you do for text. If you think there is a cross-over and you like us, please write about us, link to us, spread the news. We’re nothing without contributors, and your readers are exactly whom we want to be reaching out to. We can get their news out to the world, and in the process change what news is reported. And we’ll charge the mainstream media for anything they use, splitting the fees 50:50 with our contributors.
Please be in touch! Are there other ways we might collaborate?
With all thanks
Turi
Turi Munthe
http://www.demotix.com
Good day,
I am Nicole Barrish, an intern working with John Wilpers, the Director of Global Blog Development at GlobalPost.com, a new company dedicated to creating the very best international news reporting in the world.
We are set to launch in January of 2009 with more than 70 correspondents and 350 bloggers in 53 countries, including Sudan. For more information, go to globalpost.com.
My job is to find the world’s very best bloggers writing (in English) from or about each of those 53 countries, including Sudan.
I have been reading your blog, and I am very impressed. Your writing is excellent, and you have such a unique story to share with the world.
Mr. Wilpers and I would like to recommend you to the editorial board of Global News Enterprises for inclusion in our roster of the World’s Best Blogs.
Why is that very good news for you?
Every blogger wants maximum exposure for his or her blog, whether for the increased traffic and subsequent financial benefits, or for the expanded impact of their thoughts, or both. With our international network of newspapers, radio, television and Internet companies, your blog will be exposed to tens of thousands of people around the world.
You will have a link on our Sudan page, and your current post will appear there linking back to your blog for comments and archives. There will also be headlines linking back to your blog for several of your most recent posts.
You will also be promoted in several ways, including being in a promotion rotation on our home and region pages as well as having a personal profile page about you and your blog.
What do you have to do?
Virtually nothing, other than to keep writing great stuff regularly (ideally once a week) and sending us a full Atom RSS feed of your current blog! We will also need a photo of you (or not, if you choose to be anonymous), as well as your own description of the mission of your blog (300-500 words).
Also, I’d appreciate it if you can help us find other Sudan bloggers whom you think are the best in Sudan. I have already approached A Fresh Look At Sudan, Konyokonyo Clinic, JohnAkecSouthSudan, SudanEASE, Memoirs Of A Sudanese Breath, Sudanese Nectar.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss our project, you can reach me at: Nicole_barrish@emerson.edu or the Director of Global Blog Development, John Wilpers, at jwilpers@globalpost.com.
I really like your blog and your clear passion for Sudan. I hope that you will be willing to become part of the most exciting international news project on the Internet today. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Nicole Barrish
Darn. I wish I’d caught your blog while I was still in Juba. I was yearning to meet and talk to interesting Sudanese women, as my whole experience has been entirely male-dominated and thus rather biased!
Oh well, if I’m ever back in town I will search you out!
I have actually known someone who has the same experience to that. He is Emmanuel Jal. He was a child soldier before, and an angel- Emma McCune saved him from war. Now, Emmanuel will be building a school there in Leer, Sudan. He has actually helped a lot of his people before but the Emma Academy Project is his most recent.
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The Emma Academy Project
This project will be building a school there in Sudan. To be built in Leer, Sudan, the school will be fostering the children and at the same time nurturing the minds of the young children there. This school will be for the children of Sudan, keeping them away from the effects of war. This school is in honor of Emma McCune, the angel who saved the WarChild. To help build a school, we would need to support this cause.
job positions: I am contacting you regarding several positions we are hiring for in Southern Sudan. I have read your blog, and feel a connection to your descriptions of life in Juba. It’s a very special place.
I’m trying to get the word out about our positions, and thought you may serve as an invaluable point of contact.
Let me know, if you would like for me to send the adverts to you.
Hello,
This is Nicole from Global Post again. Just a follow up post to urge you to consider giving us permission to feature your blog on our international news website, http://www.globalpost.com, which is set to launch this January!
Further details are included in my previous comment to you. Any questions or concerns feel free to email me at nicole_barrish@emerson.edu.
Thank you for you time, look forward to hearing from you soon.