News stories by Arlene Alano

  1. “I Decide for Myself”: South Sudanese Woman Shows Power of Knowledge

    - Inter Press Service

    RUMBEK, South Sudan, Sep 08 (IPS) - Elizabeth Ayumpou Balang is a teacher at a nursery and primary school in Rumbek, a town in central South Sudan. It is her dream job, but it did not come easily. Like many girls in South Sudan, Ms. Balang was married, and became a mother, while just a teenager.

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