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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.

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Gitmo Detainee: It’s Too Dangerous to Be Sent Home to Russia

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, PassBlue | Published Jul 20, 2021

Ebola Doc: COVAX Just White Men ‘Absolving Their Conscience’

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.

Clair MacDougall, PassBlue | Published May 10, 2021

UN: French Air Strike Killed 19 Civilian Wedding Party-Goers

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.

Clair MacDougall, PassBlue | Published Mar 31, 2021

He Was the First UN Peacekeeper to Die of COVID—or Was He?

PANDEMIC

Salvadoran pilot and UN peacekeeper Carlos Guillén Alfaro’s death in Mali remains shrouded in mystery—and his family is desperate for answers.

Clair MacDougall, PassBlue | Published Aug 03, 2020

Liberia’s Child Prostitutes

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.

Clair MacDougall | Published May 19, 2014

Liberia’s Thelma And Louise

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.

Wade C.L. Williams, Clair MacDougall | Published Mar 10, 2013

Liberia: More Trouble For Sirleaf?

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.

Clair MacDougall | Published Jul 01, 2012

Taylor’s Sentence Sparks War-Crimes Debate

Liberia wrestles with whether to prosecute Liberia's former warlords in the wake of Hague trial.

Clair MacDougall | Published May 30, 2012

Lessons for Liberia

Soul-Searching

The country’s mixed response to the Taylor verdict indicates the soul-searching has just begun.

Clair MacDougall, Emily Schmall | Published Apr 28, 2012

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