Posts Tagged ‘Liberia’
Vexed by the King of Liberia
Glenna Gordon has a fantastic story about trying to take the photo of George Weah, massive soccer star and one-time presidential candidate, whose narrow loss to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf surprised some folks. Weah was in town for the recent senate elections, lending some celebrity to his political party. Here’s an excerpt: “Geogre Weah is the [...]
"I swear, that is SO legal," or, why the man in charge of fixing Liberia's justice sector "owns" all the laws
A piece of investigative reporting that took Glenna Gordon and I the better part of our month together in Monrovia, and lots of her time before that, is finally in the world. The story is about Philip Banks, by my impression a genial and very smart man, who claims to own the copyright to Liberia’s [...]
Justice and rape in Liberia
Glenna Gordon and I have a couple posts up on the Pulitzer Center blog focused on justice and rape in Liberia. The first gives some background on the difficulties of prosecution here and the second gives two different takes (hers and mine) on how to handle the confidentiality of victims. On confidentiality in genera, here’s [...]
Libraries in Liberia!
Well, law libraries anyway. Yesterday, Glenna Gordon and I went to what we’re pretty sure is all of them — there are four, actually, which is three to four more than most people seem to think when we tell them this — in search of what should be a pretty standard document. We think it [...]
Kicking off the Pulitzer Center project
I’ve landed in Monrovia, resisting the temptation to become even the cutest kid’s mom, and I’m about to dive into an overpacked month of reporting with the unparalleled Glenna Gordon. Our project page went live at the Pulitzer Center today, and you read all about what we’re doing here…here. There’s also a load of useful [...]
Oh, what a small, interconnected world
The wonderful Glenna Gordon was doing her internet thing in Monrovia today, when a man named Lincoln came over and introduced himself. He had my business card, with Glenna’s email written on the back. “I’ve never seen your business card, but I recognized the picture from Twitter,” she said. And Lincoln, a friend of mine [...]
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