Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Liberia after Ebola
By  • 10 January 2017
A year ago the World Health Organization declared the Ebola epidemic in Liberia over. But though the immediate crisis may have passed, Liberia still faces huge challenges in recovering.   Two devastating civil wars in…
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Project Exile: Chadian blogger finds French asylum
By  • 22 June 2016
"It is a common local practice. You get offered a high position, a car, and you change sides." Chad's President Idriss Déby once said "a world without a press is like a body without a…
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Guinea journalist shot to death in opposition dispute
By  • 8 February 2016
A Guinean journalist died after being shot during a physical altercation between opposing political parties in Conakry, the capital of the French-speaking West African nation. Mohammed Diallo was killed after being shot point-blank in the…
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Guinea arrests 27 for slaying Ebola health workers, journalists
By  • 24 September 2014
Police in Guinea have arrested 27 people for the killing of a group of Ebola health education workers and journalists, news outlets including Agence France-Presse reported. Molou Chérif, and Sidiki Sidibé of a community radio…
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Education best hope against Ebola
By  • 29 May 2014
With no vaccine or effective treatments, teaching people to avoid infection is key. This spring, Craig Manning of the Centers for Disease Control was in the West African country of Guinea, responding to the country’s…
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