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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, THANKSLawyers 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.

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

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.

He Was the First UN Peacekeeper to Die of COVID—or Was He?
PANDEMICSalvadoran pilot and UN peacekeeper Carlos Guillén Alfaro’s death in Mali remains shrouded in mystery—and his family is desperate for answers.

Liberia’s Child Prostitutes
Vioence Against WomenIt’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.

Liberia’s Thelma And Louise
AfricaThe 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.

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.

Taylor’s Sentence Sparks War-Crimes Debate
Liberia wrestles with whether to prosecute Liberia's former warlords in the wake of Hague trial.

Lessons for Liberia
Soul-SearchingThe country’s mixed response to the Taylor verdict indicates the soul-searching has just begun.
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