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
Justice Renewed: Liberia After War
Reproduced with permission from The Christian Science Monitor.
Jina Moore, for the Pulitzer Center (Photos by Glenna Gordon)
Jina Moore, for the Pulitzer Center
Liberia is coming up on the one-year anniversary of Court E, a judicial innovation the country hopes will help it tackle an epidemic of rape.
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected Liberia's president in 2005, she inherited a country wrecked by civil war and began to transform it. Today, school enrollment is up 40 percent, Monrovia has power and running water, and trade in diamonds and timber is up again. NEWSWEEK's Jina Moore met recently with the former World Bank economist to talk about terrorism, the resource curse, and Obama's Africa agenda.
Is Obama keeping his promises to African leaders and their people?
Jina Moore, for the Pulitzer Center
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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...