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Securing the Peace in Liberia (6m 6.6s)

Women of the United Nations police and peacekeeping forces that entered Liberia after the civil war have inspired a new generation of Liberian women to don uniforms.

 

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AFRICA VIDEOS    [ 14 found ]

  • Securing the Peace in Liberia
    Women of the United Nations police and peacekeeping forces that entered Liberia after the civil war have inspired a new generation of Liberian wome......
  • Riding a Bus Into South Africa's Future
    A new rapid transport system exposes lingering divisions in a city where some much is seen through the prism of race....
  • A Somali-American's Improbable Return
    After returning to Somalia in 2008 to aid victims of a drought, the locals asked Mohamed Aden to become their leader. In less than a year, he has t......
  • Apartheid Haunts South Africa's Schools
    Celia Dugger reports from the Kwamfundo School near Cape Town on South Africa's struggling public education system....
  • Famine Fears in Northern Kenya
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  • Somalia's Pirates Face Growing Backlash
    Abshir Boyah, a pirate who says he has hijacked more than 25 ships off the coast of Somalia, says he will give up this career if certain terms are ......
  • Reporter's Notebook: Libya's Leader
    Authoritarian leaders all over the world take steps to create a veneer of democracy. Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi outdoes almost all of them....
  • Confronting Rape on Zimbabwe's Border
    As some women flee from political chaos and economic collapse in Zimbabwe, waiting for them on both sides of the border are gumagumas, men who offe......
  • Reporter's Notebook: A Fragile Optimism
    The mountain gorillas in Eastern Congo stand to benefit from the recent departure of rebels under General Laurent Nkunda....
  • Darfur's Generation X
    Many boys coming of age in the refugee camps in Darfur, constitute a rising political force referred to as the Shabab, Arabic for young men....
  • Patrolling for Somali Pirates
    East Africa Bureau Chief Jeffery Gettleman reports offshore on an Italian warship on efforts to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden....
  • Growing Security Concerns in West Africa
    Thousands of miles away from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, in the West African country of Mali, American soldiers are leading military ......
  • Breaking the Silence
    The United Nations says Congo has the worst sexual violence in the world. For years, rape survivors were shamed into silence, while the government......
  • Sudanese President Dances In Darfur
    Despite an international indictment on charges of genocide, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, danced at what appeared to be a mandator......
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