Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoSOUTH SUDAN / RADIO MIRAYA
Download
There is no media available to download.
Share
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / RADIO MIRAYA
TRT: 02:52
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 JULY 2026, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, student Journalist filming
2. SOUNDBITE (English) James Jolbek, St. Mary’s Academy, News Reporter:
“I always listen to Radio Miraya whereby I always get accurate information and that gave me the courage to choose to be a journalist and also to present some accurate news like the way Radio Miraya is doing in South Sudan.”
3. Various shots, Irene Lasu from Radio Miraya hosting at the Miraya @ 20 event
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Irene Lasu, Co-Host, Miraya Breakfast Show:
“It is important to nurture young talent because if somebody has exhibited a love for something, at least somebody who has walked the journey should be in position to help guide them because we are not here to stay in these positions. We nurture the young people to come and join us where we are.”
5. Various shots, student journalist filming
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Leticia Oyet, News Presenter, Darling Wisdom Academy:
“My father is also a journalist, and I saw him being a journalist and I see how he speaks truth to the whole of South Sudan, and I also decided that I also want to speak the truth.”
7. Med shot, OTS, Miraya News presenters with student filming in foreground
8. Med shot, OTS, student filming
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Mujungu, English Language Teacher, Darling Wisdom Academy:
“We have brought our students here to learn a lot from such events from Radio Miraya so that when in future they also take up their Journalism career, they don’t feel out of place, or they don’t feel like they are starting afresh. So, this is baby steps that they are taking to help them shape their journalism career in future.”
10. Various shots, student journalist filming
As the United Nations-operated Radio Miraya celebrated 20 years of being on air in South Sudan, journalists from across the country commemorated the importance of the network in bringing peace to the conflict-affected country.
What stood out the most was a group of young student journalists covering the event who weren’t even born when the station began its work.
The youngsters from sister schools; Darling Wisdom Academy School and St. Mary’s Academy Journalism Club, who have been mentored by Radio Miraya staff for three years, came to the event armed with their phones and a thirst for bringing news of importance to communities across the country.
SOUNDBITE (English) James Jolbek, St. Mary’s Academy, News Reporter:
“I always listen to Radio Miraya whereby I always get accurate information and that gave me the courage to choose to be a journalist and also to present some accurate news like the way Radio Miraya is doing in South Sudan.”
One Miraya presenter is particularly popular with these budding reporters. Irene Lasu, co-host of the iconic Miraya Breakfast Show, describes the mentoring programme with these high schoolers as “nurturing sessions” where she teaches these eager young minds the essentials of news gathering and presenting.
SOUNDBITE (English) Irene Lasu, Co-Host, Miraya Breakfast Show:
“It is important to nurture young talent because if somebody has exhibited a love for something, at least somebody who has walked the journey should be in position to help guide them because we are not here to stay in these positions. We nurture the young people to come and join us where we are.”
The adage that ‘an apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’ is true in this instance with Leticia Oyet, the daughter of the President of the Union of Journalists of South Sudan, following in her fathers’ footsteps.
SOUNDBITE (English) Leticia Oyet, News Presenter, Darling Wisdom Academy:
“My father is also a journalist, and I saw him being a journalist and I see how he speaks truth to the whole of South Sudan, and I also decided that I also want to speak the truth.”
Covering the Miraya at 20 event was a huge step for these budding young journalists as they rubbed shoulders with veterans of the business.
SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Mujungu, English Language Teacher, Darling Wisdom Academy:
“We have brought our students here to learn a lot from such events from Radio Miraya so that when in future they also take up their Journalism career, they don’t feel out of place, or they don’t feel like they are starting afresh. So, this is baby steps that they are taking to help them shape their journalism career in future.”
Whatever path they decide to take after high school, it is obvious that these young minds are ready to make a real difference in speaking truth to power at a critical time in their young nation’s history.
