Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
South Africa's xenophobia problem
By  • 26 September 2019
South Africa's wealth and stability has drawn millions of migrants from elsewhere in Africa. Yet migration has tested the Rainbow Nation's unity and values. In recent weeks the country has been the scene of deadly…
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Gender quotas on the march
By  • 18 October 2018
Christine Blasey Ford was 100 percent certain Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school. Kavanaugh was 100 percent certain he didn’t. But one figure that jumped out of Kavanaugh's recent U.S. Supreme Court…
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Project Exile: White Zimbabwean journalist grapples with post-Mugabe era
By  • 23 May 2018
[caption id="attachment_9526" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Interviews with journalists forced from their home countries for doing their job.[/caption] "The question is now, under the change of government, would I be welcome? I'm still being outspoken about what…
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Zimbabwe, South Africa in transition
By  • 16 November 2017
Two figures have dominated the politics of southern Africa in recent years. One is Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe. The other is South Africa’s 75-year-old President Jacob Zuma. Now Mugabe is in military custody after…
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The business of poaching
By  • 6 July 2017
Might your children or grandchildren someday live in a world without rhinoceroses or African elephants? The chances of that are probably higher than you might guess. There are just 350,000 elephants remaining on African savannas,…
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Zimbabwe 'bond notes' stoke fears of hyperinflation's return
By  • 25 February 2017
After rebounding from one of the most spectacular episodes of hyperinflation in human history, Zimbabwe risks new economic turmoil as it issues a new “bond note” currency meant to stave off a shortage of dollars.…
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Zimbabwe after Mugabe
By  • 23 February 2017
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe recently turned 93, making him the oldest non-royal head of state in the world. But in his 37 years in power, he's become a caricature of the corrupt African dictator. Once…
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Zimbabwe journalist fights charges after poaching report
By  • 11 February 2017
"[We] were being hunted by very senior police officers mandated with protecting wildlife." After Zimbabwe's Sunday Mail published a 2015 report revealing the involvement of police and wildlife rangers in a poaching syndicate that poisoned 22 elephants…
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The business of poaching
By  • 9 February 2017
Might your children or grandchildren someday live in a world without rhinoceroses or African elephants? The chances of that are probably higher than you might guess. There are just 350,000 elephants remaining on African savannas,…
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Zimbabwe police arrest journalist for filming a protest
By  • 18 November 2015
Zimbabwean police have arrested and charged a freelance journalist who was covering a protest against President Robert Mugabe's government in the capital Harare. Anderson Shadreck Manyere, an award-winning photojournalist and videographer, was filming clashes between…
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