NO, THANKS
Lawyers and family members of a Russian detainee—who is now being held in the UAE—say he should not be sent home to Russia as he may be tortured or killed.
Clair MacDougall is an independent journalist and writer who reports throughout Africa and is now based in the Sahel region, reporting on the security and humanitarian crisis.
SAVIOR COMPLEX
As COVID cases reach new peaks around the world, Ebola frontliners are rallying against jab inequity and lambasting WHO’s global vaccine initiative for its obvious shortcomings.
DEVASTATING
“The majority of those hit in the strike were civilians who are protected from such attacks by international humanitarian law,” a UN report released this week noted.
PANDEMIC
Salvadoran pilot and UN peacekeeper Carlos Guillén Alfaro’s death in Mali remains shrouded in mystery—and his family is desperate for answers.
Vioence Against Women
It’s not just in Nigeria or Sudan that young women are abused. The “short-time girls” of Monrovia are victims of a culture that accepts their rape, their prostitution and their pain.
Africa
The mayor of Monrovia—and close friend of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—sprang a pal from jail and went on the lam. Clair MacDougall and Wade C.L. Williams report on the political drama gripping Liberia.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia’s president and Africa’s first female head of state, yet again stands accused of nepotism, this time by members of her own party.
Liberia wrestles with whether to prosecute Liberia's former warlords in the wake of Hague trial.
Soul-Searching
The country’s mixed response to the Taylor verdict indicates the soul-searching has just begun.