Andrew Green
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2012
- Affiliation during program:
- Freelance journalist
- Country:
- South Sudan
- Year:
- 2012
Andrew Green is a freelance journalist based in Kampala, Uganda, who writes primarily about issues of public health and governance. He has extensive experience reporting from sub-Saharan Africa, having previously worked in South Africa and Zambia, where he had a Fulbright grant studying the evolution of the country’s independent media. His work has appeared in In These Times, The American Prospect, PlusNew, Global Journalist and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In addition, Green was the web editor at the Center for Public Integrity for three years, where he led the Center’s digital efforts, including a video series from the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. He graduated from Northwestern University and hails from Kentucky.
Stories
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South Sudan: Xenophobia Emerges Amidst Local Unemployment
It wasn’t the fire in Juba’s Konyo Konyo market last March that took Robert Ongua’s goods. Like most Ugandans peddling goods at the market in South Sudan’s capital, ...
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Sudan Conflict Exacerbates Food Crisis
There’s no soda water in the Wau market. It’s an easy thing to overlook in the bustling heart of this western South Sudanese town, since the basics are still in abundance: ...
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Going South: Turmoil in the World’s Newest Country
On a hot evening in March, with the temperature still over 100 degrees, I met a veteran journalist named Jacob Akol in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. South Sudan is the newest ...
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Health Care in South Sudan at a Crossroads
This was supposed to be a year of transition for South Sudan's health system. After last July's independence, the country—shored up by international donors—was set to move ...
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Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood
As the process of reintegrating South Sudan’s child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to ...
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Displaced from Abyei, Struggling to Survive
Tens of thousands of people forced to flee violence along the border dividing Sudan from its southern neighbor are now confronted by difficulties of life in displacement ...
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South Sudan HIV Treatment Hurt by Lack of Money
In South Sudan, tens of thousands of HIV/AIDS patients are eligible to start anti-retroviral therapy to treat the disease. But the country’s main source of funding for the drugs ...
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Many South Sudanese Unable to Return Home
Teresa Adut Akol’s new home is a small patch of concrete floor in a railway station outside this town. She shares the space with her eight children and stacks of their ...
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Latrines Critical to Keeping Kids in South Sudan’s Schools
Before Bor B Primary School built latrines on the school grounds two years ago, students would leave during their first break to head home. Most did not come back until the next ...
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South Sudan Closer to Being Polio-Free
South Sudan officials are hopeful the country will soon be declared polio-free, as the latest round of nationwide polio immunizations wraps up. On the brink of being ...
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Saving Mothers’ Lives One Midwife at a Time in South Sudan
Martha Borete Angela is a first-year students in a programme for midwives at the Catholic Health Training Institute South Sudan.Photo: Andrew Green/IPSMartha Borete Angela’s ...
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South Sudan Inches Closer to Eradicating Guinea Worm
South Sudan, the world’s newest country, is on the brink of its first health-care success. Cases of guinea worm have dropped dramatically in the past five years and there is ...
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