Fellows & Editors
Andrew Green
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2012
- Affiliation:
- Freelance journalist
- Country:
- South Sudan
- Year:
- 2012
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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. He also reported on health and development in Mozambique on a 2015 IRP fellowhip.
Stories
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South Sudan: Xenophobia Emerges Amidst Local Unemployment
Photo: United to End Genocide. An outdoor market in Juba, South Sudan. It wasn't the fire in Juba's Konyo Konyo market last March that took Robert Ongua's goods. Like...
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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...
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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...
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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 away from emergency...
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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 release all child soldiers...
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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 camps. Long after the 2005 peace...
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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
A woman stands outside her home in Wunchuei, near the contested region of Abyei, Sudan and South Sudan's new and undefined border. Teresa Adut Akol's new home is a...
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Latrines Critical to Keeping Kids in South Sudan’s Schools
Photo: Andrew Green/IPS Before Bor B Primary School built latrines on the school grounds (pictured in background), students would leave during their break and not return. Before Bor B Primary School...
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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 polio-free Before 2008, the area that...
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Saving Mothers’ Lives One Midwife at a Time in South Sudan
Martha Borete Angela is a first-year student in a programme for midwives at the Catholic Health Training Institute South Sudan. Photo: Andrew Green/IPS Martha Borete Angela's gaze sinks to the...
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South Sudan Inches Closer to Eradicating Guinea Worm
Photo: Reuters A guinea worm emerges from the leg of a South Sudanese girl in Juba. South Sudan, the world's newest country, is on the brink of its first health-care success....
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