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2024 Annual Symposium and AGM at SOAS

This year's Symposium and AGM will take place in London on Saturday 5th October

Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street (off Russell Square), London WC1H 0XG. 

Timings: Registration from 09:15. Symposium from 10:15-17.00.

Programme: panels will be on the following subjects:

The Sudans Takeover (Sudanese journalism in The Guardian)

Short description

On 7 July 2016 The Guardian newspaper's Africa Network featured the work of a group of Sudanese and South Sudanese journalists, reporting on the issues facing their countries. "From clubbing to beauty politics, police crackdowns to the ongoing war in Darfur, their stories offer a new way to understand this under-reported region." The journalists whose work was featured are: Ahmad Abushakeema, Yousra Elbagir, Mohamed Hilali, Mariak Bol Majok, Opoka p'Arop Otto, Zeinab Mohammed Salih.

URL
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/the-sudans-takeover

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

A public event linked to the launch of a book of the same name by Hilde F. Johnson. Other speakers are Clare Short and Barney Afako.

Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London. 17:30-19:30, Tuesday 21 June 2016.

Hosted by the Royal African Society, SOAS and Kings College London. (SSSUK is not an organizer of this event.) Link to the booking webpage here.

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