Sanctuary
anna @ May 27, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Anna Sussman reports on how Liberia’s civil war forced a teenage boy to choose between taking up arms, and leaving his country behind. Listen to Sanctuary on NPR’s Snap Judgment.
Child Soldiers–Not Just for Africa
anna @ April 20, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Why do armies recruit children? Shane O’Doherty looks back on his years as a child soldier for the IRA and explains. Anna Sussman reports for NPR’s Snap Judgment Babyface Bomber
On the MEND
anna @ January 18, 2011 # No Comment Yet
When 68 year-old Texas oil worker Macon Hawkins was kidnapped by MEND rebels in Nigeria, he learned to see the oil business in a new light. Anna Sussman reports On the MEND
UN official looks at US housing crisis
anna @ November 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The economic crisis has hit American homeowners and renters especially hard. You can read the impact on the faces of the homeless and in the yard signs that say foreclosed. Now a UN official is seeing it for herself on a tour of the United States. Reporter Anna Sussman went along for the ride in [...]
US Military Aid to Liberia Cause for Concern
anna @ August 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The US has donated some $200 million in military aid to re-train and re-arm Liberia’s military. While some say the notoriously criminal army needed the professional training, others are worried given the violent consequences US military aid to the country in the past. Anna Sussman reports for PRI’s The World. Liberia’s Military.
Rwanda on Trial
anna @ November 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
How does a country recover from a genocide? In Rwanda, the government has implemented a traditional system of justice and reconciliation known as the Gacaca courts. The courts are expected to deal with the hundreds of thousands of people accused of participating in the 1994 genocide and promote reconciliation between genocide perpetrators and survivors. Jonathan [...]
Journalist Detained by US Military for Reporting
anna @ September 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Anna Sussman writes for the San Francisco Chronicle on the detention of a local journalist by the US Military in Afghanistan Journalist Detained for Reporting
Missed a Backpackjournalist Broadcast?
anna @ June 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Find and view all the BackPackJournalist TV features from Africa, Asia and beyond here.
Food Uncertainties in Indonesia
anna @ June 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Poor families in Indonesia are forced to make hard choices as the price of food continues to rise. Watch the BackPackJournalist short film on Current TV, the first in a series on the global food crisis. Food Crisis: Hard Choices
Peace still elusive in Uganda
anna @ April 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In Uganda, Lord’s Resistance Army commander Joseph Kony continues to delay signing a peace agreement that would end Africa’s longest-running civil war. Foreign Policy magazine’s blog recommends Jones/Sussman short film “A Civil War Ends?” “…an amazing short documentary on the conflict that includes an interview with a former top LRA commander who says he has [...]