Hello im christine want to welcome to news africa its good to have you along youre watching me now so you know what a difference a broad cost can make and its not Just Television radio you can be a powerful tool for citizen journalists now there are about a 1000000 refugees between south sudan and uganda and its mostly people from south sudan who fled to uganda because of fighting often they a rival triggers conflicts inside the host country now displaced people and members off the hook society often have no access to reliable information and thats a breeding ground for room is and false reports today we want to tell you about an initiative seeking to provide these communities with relevant radio its called Cross Border Network. The. The. Now the w. Has just organized a conference looking into the role that media can play if brought together refugees need to professionals and humanitarian experts to discuss access to information and forced migration 68. Im now joined by jane would Cross Border Networks project coordinator in uganda and her josephine fortell and she called and its a project for south sudan and theyre at that conference at welcome to you ladies jane ill start with you just looking at some of the headlines on c. B. S. Website for example youve got canned music and don stop any marriage in refugee settlements you also have suicide cases many among south sudanese Asylum Seekers in uganda which you say that refugees settlements all communities with issues unique to them that local media just doesnt cover. Thank you very much absolutely refugee camps all settlements whichever way you call them have challenges that are unique and unique to specific settlement camps. And sometimes this challenges are just not tied lighted by mainstream media. For various reasons one of them being the issue of access to the camps of the 7 men the 7 minutes is not as easy dont just walk into a terrific camp to gather some of the information but. That then becomes a limitation in terms of what some media houses are architects that able to broadcast yes all right jessica let me bring you. In here so youre using this platform see the end so ridges tensions between the more than a 1000000 south sudanese refugees in uganda and their Host Communities how is that working. Because so much of. This is really working because chris budden a truck member registrations and crosspollinate drop. A 2nd veritas working towards you know creating a platform for for a few years and Host Communities we we do offer them an opportunity to have a dialogue between there for years and the Host Communities know lets talk and share their challenge just and good solution thats normally what we do right. We also you know weve been tryna talk member registrations each member credit locator time for for for discussion or for use issues and there and then the content is wildly you know shared with all our audience and thats how we we are we right well in doing it ok just a bit and perhaps tell us more about i know youre both going to weigh in here but starting with you josephine how does a Cross Border Network kill rate its content. Theres been a talk is a network of member member registrations our contents normally comes from the stations. But how we do it as cross about a new truck we always give Capacity Building through to our member stations journalists for them to come up with accounting that we need that should you know the interest of cross more than a truck so what we do is like we give Capacity Building we have a literal guidelines we also you know have one in order putting standard together with the new top editors we we always come up with the contents that we want and the contents that were looking after is a kind of contents that you know create a space for peaceful coexistence peace conference and that gives you know the. Refugees and the Host Communities a space of you know creating a piece of society right so thats how we normally do it yes right n. J. There is an element of citizen journalism to this right as as as just in a sort of alluding to. Yes there is that i never meant to advise citizen journalists and that is how we are able to get some content that is not easy to find especially for other Media Outlets because we have citizen journalists who say who some of whom leave within the camp so this i commenced and this time that this citizen genet is that able to pick up on issues that within the camps are the segments and they share with us. With on investigations and then the content goes through editorial and then that helps us to have content that can contribute through yep useful quick systems and also give some hope to staying with it and i just want it i mean what i 7 what are you all proudest achievements with cross border and it i think im proudest achievement is that we have been able to create content to that has one way or the other contributed to peaceful coexistence among us there if it is and then the Host Communities throughout all content weve also seen that some steps have been taken by local government oh you know to that to the fact that even some you know things have been ringback decided which have been helpful to to promote peace peace and peaceful coexistence we have examples of that as a result of content that we broadcast on our different radio stations member. Member member districts you know different other districts where if you just. Well every night what excellent best practices were. Said to have a district that you know helps to scale down. Conflicts back to established a mall you know comfortable and yeah. Said 7 meant that a peaceful coexistence just may not have so end off with you i mean the deeds of the academy has organized this conference and looking at dialogue in forced migration what will be what will you be taking home from this conference. What we will be taking home from this conference is that. People have to make an informed decision. Dear if you use a becomes and should be i. D. P. s in time student theyre free to decide which owned owned this tradition whether to come out of the com send or if i do ph and go home you know help in rebuilding the nation and the other thing rachael took from here is that i do refuse and migration is an agenda today that all of us has to Work Together to mak you know a Peaceful Society for people so that they go home josephine and jay thank you so much. And its not just radio like a project from jane and josephine thats making a difference in ghana a group of young people are using theatre to engage local team ages the p. S. L. For social change project says its vision is to have resilient informed and empowered communities especially women girls and youth with selfconfidence to improve their wellbeing. Young actors in gym style as sub people far cry our heads in for an upcoming stage performance the pats offer a group called fiats are for social change the group uses interactive performances us an innovative 2 to promote be able react change theyre not just activists but friends who grew up in this community 28 year old just finished says that they feel atta saved here from teenage pregnancy as social vises i could see my age Group Getting pregnant dating food people you think this guy is too old for me but that was the norm those that were down in could have followed this thing lying because we came here we had chains in and asked of its its needed different people in the community the group was formed in 2003 and i strained over a 100 young people so far taking many of them off the streets. The to entertain. Problems in the communities. We believe thats. True thats can actually engage young people and. To discuss issues that are life and putting these issues into a dramatic form helps. You realize how important. And find solutions to. Feel and have frames before me. Following jerry has out the previous the. Audiences are comprised of. These stage performances hes focused on the topic of ministration and. When the phrase experience 8 reaction from the audience member particularly the younger ones shows how much of the flames and enjoy. Playing the amish a shamefaced master tell you just through and. Through. And i said the wings he should have time for ministry to explain everything to you what. Are their frames one to become professionals. In the country with jesus. And thats it for. Africa you can catch all our stories on our website and Facebook Page will leave you with another look at the world of cross border. Time i found out. Every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word published in the book. 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In recent years theres been lots of talk about former colonial powers returning cultural jams mostly taken from africa that were looted in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in germanys case were talking about thousands of objects currently in german museums that were mostly taken from namibia which was a German Colony until 915 the namibians want what they rightly considered as return and this week germany has created a Central Office to deal with the restitution of such cultural abbots assets not only for the baby but it is then that the wounds of the colonial rule of the deepest. The german colonial era has left deep scars in the media artifacts from that country are still held in german news events including their