Apollonia Mathia (died 18 March 2011) was a

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journalist and

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. Mathia was one of the founders of the Association for Media Women in South Sudan (AMWISS) as well as Union of Journalists of Southern Sudan (UJOSS).

Background and education

Mathia was born in the 1950s. She spent her childhood in northern

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before relocating to

Juba Juba is the capital and largest city of South Sudan. The city is situated on the White Nile and also serves as the capital of the Central Equatoria, Central Equatoria State. It is the most recently declared national capital and had a populatio ...

Career

Before she joined the Ministry of Finance as a secretary in 1978, Mathia worked as an Information Manager at the Catholic Church. She later quit to join the

Juba Post ''The Juba Post'' (also: ''The Juba Post Newspaper'') is an independent English-language newspaper in South Sudan. It currently has offices in both Juba and Khartoum. It is the first independent newspaper of South Sudan based in Juba, the capital ...

where she was the only female editor and

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. She left the Juba Post in 2008 and joined the BBC Monitoring Service as their correspondent in South Sudan. Mathia worked at a number of jobs and helped found the Union of Journalists of Southern Sudan (UJOSS). She also worked as a consultant at South Sudan's World Bank Micro-finance investment department. At the time of her death in 2011, Mathia was Executive Director of the Association for Media Women in South Sudan (AMWISS) which she had helped co-found in 2008 alongside Veronica Lucy Gordon and others

Death

On 18 March 2011, Mathia died as a result of an accident when a motorcycle she was on was crushed by a lorry.

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