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Sanctuary

anna — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:56:12 +0000

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 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:39:14 +0000

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 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:26:42 +0000

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 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:22:27 +0000

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 L.A.

UN Official looks at US housing crisis

US Military Aid to Liberia Cause for Concern

anna — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:39:11 +0000

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 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:37:38 +0000

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 Jones and Anna Sussman were granted rare access to videotape the proceedings. They also traveled to other parts of the country to investigate underlying ethnic tensions.

Rwanda on Trial

Journalist Detained by US Military for Reporting

anna — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:46:04 +0000

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 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:32:04 +0000

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Food Uncertainties in Indonesia

anna — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:55:12 +0000

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 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:48:33 +0000

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 no regrets about his actions:”