Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Western Sahara's forgotten conflict
By  • 10 October 2019
Nearly all of Africa was decolonized in the 1960s and 1970s. But there is one slice of the continent that wasn't. That's the sparsely populated territory of Western Sahara, a Colorado-sized swathe of land in…
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A glimpse of Western Sahara's forgotten refugees
By  • 10 October 2019
"There's a chance the Sahrawi people could start a new war." The frozen conflict in the disputed territory of Western Sahara rarely makes international headlines anymore. In part that's because the 16-year guerrilla war between…
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Project Exile: Moroccan journalist flees after being stripped, jailed
By  • 25 June 2019
"The police broke down the door of my apartment and forced me to undress." When the security software on Moroccan journalist Hicham Mansouri's computer alerted him that there had been a number of attempts to…
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Arab women see changing rights climate [rebroadcast]
By  • 27 December 2018
In late June, the first Saudi women to legally drive a car in the kingdom started their engines and took off down the road. The lifting of Saudi Arabia’s ban on female drivers was a…
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Arab women's rights
By  • 12 July 2018
In late June, the first Saudi women to legally drive a car in the kingdom started their engines and took off down the road. The lifting of Saudi Arabia’s ban on female drivers was a…
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Editor pioneers gay media in Arab world
By  • 7 November 2016
“It seems every year we get ourselves into some kind of trouble.” The Arab world is one of the most difficult regions to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. In many countries, same-sex relations are…
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Gay rights in the Arab world
By  • 22 September 2016
One of the hardest regions of the globe to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is the Arab world. In Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the punishment for the crime of sodomy is death by stoning,…
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Torture report leads to Morocco defamation conviction
By  • 6 July 2015
A Moroccan editor has been found guilty of criminal defamation for reporting on the alleged torture and death of a human rights activist in police custody. Hamid el-Mehdaoui, editor of the independent news website, Badil,…
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Yemeni journalist among dozens killed in Saudi-led airstrikes
By  • 28 April 2015
Airstrikes in Yemen by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition have killed four employees of a Yemeni television station and injured about 10 others. Among those killed in the April 20 attack in the capital Sana'a was…
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Moroccan journalist hit with adultery charge
By , • 7 April 2015
A Moroccan investigative journalist has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for adultery and starting a brothel in a case human rights groups say is an effort to intimidate the press. Hicham Mansouri, a…
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