Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
China's Uighurs face cultural assault
By  • 11 October 2018
Over the past year, China has vastly increased repression of the country’s Uighur minority. A Turkic group that practices Islam, the Uighurs have long faced restrictions from Beijing – but over the past year as many…
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Documenting starvation in South Sudan
By  • 23 March 2017
"Something has to be done about this."  One day in May of last year, Spanish photographer Albert Gonzalez Farran was taking pictures of the humanitarian crisis in the South Sudanese town of Maiwut near the country's…
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Burundi on edge
By  • 17 March 2016
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza's announcement in April that he would seek a third five-year term set off a year of instability in the central African nation that has left hundreds dead and forced a quarter…
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In Burundi conflict, radio stations a point of contention
By  • 17 March 2016
The central African nation of Burundi has experienced unrest since the April announcement that President Pierre Nkurunziza was seeking a third, five-year term in office. The announcement led to abortive coup attempt and a boycott…
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Project Exile: Out of South Sudan's violence
By  • 24 September 2014
"My sister and my brothers, I do not know where they are. They are still in South Sudan but I don’t know whether they are dead or they are alive." Bonifacio Taban’s career in journalism…
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