Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
West Africa Islamic schools test traditions and children's rights
By  • 15 November 2019
A reporter found the parents of child beggars didn't always want them "rescued" It's a common site in cities and towns across much of West Africa: groups of boys in ragged clothes carrying begging bowls in…
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Islamic schools grapple with abuse scandals
By  • 14 November 2019
The Catholic Church isn't alone in facing widespread child sex abuse allegations. Islamic schools internationally are also confronting a history of abuse. On this week's show, a look at recent investigations of abuse in Islamic…
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Project Exile: On the run from Gambia's security forces
By  • 15 November 2016
"When they arrested them, I was in hiding for five days." After graduating from high school in 2001, Buya Jammeh dreamed of becoming a journalist. That was no easy career path in his home country…
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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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Project Exile: Reporter leaves Gambia after torture in jail
By  • 21 April 2016
"The men continued to use heavy sticks to hit me. At some point, they also placed a plastic bag over my head and I felt like I was going to suffocate." Alhagie Jobe had a…
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