Glenna Gordon and Jina Moore look at Liberia's efforts to restore law and justice -- for victims of sexual violence, for communities in conflict and for the nation as a whole.
Liberia: Of Land, Family and Feuds
Published January 20, 2010
Jina Moore, for the Pulitzer Center (Photos by Glenna Gordon)
This is a slideshow photographer Glenna Gordon and I prepared for the Christian Science Monitor, which features my reporting and her photographs in this week's cover story, "The African Divide." The article focuses on how land has been at the root of many of Africa's most well-known conflicts -- and the promising steps some countries are taking to solve the land problem.
In Liberia, that includes giving women like Yar Gegh equal rights to own land. For years, Yar Gegh worked her family's farm and took care of her dying mother. Then her brother came back from the war and claimed the plot, "as the man." Here's what happened.
On February 27, Jina Moore was interviewed for the Washington Journal program on C-SPAN about her reporting on Africa's land issues for the
Reproduced with permission from The Christian Science Monitor.
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Jina Moore is an independent journalist who specializes in post-conflict and human rights reporting. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and of an Ochberg Fellowship with the Dart Center for...
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Glenna Gordon is a freelance journalist currently based in Monrovia. She has lived and worked in Africa since 2006, contributing photos, text and sound to The New York Times Magazine, Time, the BBC...
