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What people in South Sudan are doing for Peace.

Story Filmed by UN crew in Southern Sudan.

STORY: SUDAN / JUBA TOWN CRIER

TRT 3.11

SOURCE: UNMIS

RESTRICTIONS: NONE

LANGUAGE: JUBA ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2008, JUBA, SUDAN

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot, Sultan Jamb's house in Hai Malakal residential area Juba

2. Med shot, discarded Peugeot taxi car inside his compound

3. Close up, plate number

4. Med shot, inside discarded car

5. Wide shot, Sultan Jambo repairing mega phone on his new Toyota pickup

6. Med shot, Sultan Jambo repairing megaphone

7. Wide shot, Sultan Jambo leaving home on his Toyota pick up

8. Close up, megaphone

9. Med shot, Sultan announcing from inside his pickup

10. SOUNDBITE (Juba Arabic) Sultan Jambo (Town Crier):

"I was working as a taxi driver, and had a chance to announce sport events using my taxi. After that anyone with any occasion started coming to me for announcements."

11. Wide shot, Sultan Jambo driving in Juba

12. Med shot, elderly man greeting Sultan Jumbo

13. Med shot, Sultan Jumbo driving towards down town Juba

14. SOUNDBITE (Juba Arabic) Sultan Jambo (Town Crier):

"As for me I do not celebrate peace day once a year. I celebrate peace every day. I inform people about peace, so that people do not forget peace. We should remember and celebrate peace well. The world celebrates peace once a year but I celebrate peace everyday."

15. Med shot, Sultan announcing

16. Med shot, Sultan Jambo talking about peace

17. SOUNDBITE (Juba Arabic) Sultan Jambo (Town Crier)

"Time of hatred and war has gone. Now we have CPA (Comprehensive Peace Agreement). I teach people about peace everyday, and CPA brings us everything."

18. Wide shot, Sultan Jumbe talking to people on the street

19. Med shot, Motok Diyei Kwot and friends looking at Sultan Jambo

20. SOUNDBITE (Juba Arabic) Motok Diyei Kwot, Resident of Juba:

"He goes and announces messages to every residential areas, market places be it day or night and informs people. People who have no access to TV or radio get the information from him.

21. Wide shot, Sultan Jambo in market place

22. Med shot, Sultan Jambo announcing

23. Wide shot, Sultan driving

STORYLINE:

Inside the compound of Sultan Jambo's house sits two battered yellow Peugeot cars that are familiar to anyone in Juba. The vehicles were used as taxis before being transformed into mobile loudspeakers of news and announcements.

The yellow Peugeots are no longer driving the streets of Juba, having been replaced by a megaphone-mounted Toyota pickup. However, the words "Kabara Bera –Bera habab asara (announcement by Bera –Bera)" continue to be heard as the smiling face of the announcer speaks, people in Juba listen to what the town crier has to say.

In a town like Juba with limited telephone lines, inadequate communication mechanisms and bumpy roads, Sultan Jambo the town crier has become the fastest way to get an urgent message across in Juba.

Driving at a snails pace around Juba, 51-year-old Sultan, or Bera-Bera (Slow-slow) as he is more popularly known tells his eager listeners the latest news of the day and other relevant messages.

SOUNDBITE (Juba Arabic) Sultan Jambo:

"I was working as a taxi driver, and had a chance to announce sport events using my taxi. After that anyone with any occasion started coming to me for announcements"

He is well respected and trusted by the people. He brings in important messages, like the venue of a football game you hated to miss. He may give you updates on cholera, polio or meningitis outbreaks, even telling you when and where to get immunized and UN special events.

Today his message is about peace.

SOUNDBITE (Juba Arabic) Sultan Jambo

"As for me I do not celebrate peace day once a year. I celebrate peace every day. I inform people about peace, so that people do not forget peace. We should remember and celebrate peace well. The world celebrates peace once a year but I celebrate peace everyday."

After two decades of war in Sudan between North and South, people in Sudan are enjoying peace.

SOUNDBITE (Juba Arabic) Sultan Jambo

"Time of hatred and war has gone. Now we have CPA (Comprehensive Peace Agreement). I teach people about peace everyday, and CPA brings us everything."

Motok Diyei Kwot is a resident of Juba and has listened to Sultan's messages daily. He said that the most effective source of information in Juba is Sultan Jambo, he is always on the road telling people about important issues and that it's even better than radio and TV.

SOUNDBITE (Juba Arabic) Motok Diyei Kwot, Resident of Juba

"He goes and announces messages to every residential areas, market places be it day or night and informs people. People who have no access to TV or radio get the information from him."

Any messages you want conveyed to the people of Juba will most likely be broadcast by Sultan. He broadcasts new products, business opening in the region, community meetings UN special events and health related issues like cholera and malaria. Bera Bera may stop his broadcast and greet people passing by, he calls them over his megaphone and asks about their family well being and their health, on an open microphone.

Sultan Jambo was born in Jumbo, Mundri East county, Western Equatoria State as one of 42 children of the village chief. He attended primary Junior school in Maridi County and obtained his Sudan School certificate from Juba in 1985. His favorite subjects were mathematics and science and he planned to become a teacher.

But Sultan's study was short-lived due to the civil war and the financial problems of supporting such a large family. Instead, he learned to drive and became a taxi driver.

His dream of becoming a teacher did not materialize. But by virtue of his "Bera-Bera" work he became one of the greatest teachers in the town of Juba. "I educate people on how to clean their homes and drink clean water to reduce cholera, meningitis and other diseases, so you see I am a teacher," he said with a smile.

Sultan Jambo is married and has seven children.

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