TMP contributor Evelyn Kpadeh of Liberia has been named Liberia's best Sexual Gender Based Violence Reporter of 2012.
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S. Dji, a young Cameroonian entrepreneur, says she is living proof that faith in God alone can cure HIV. Health workers, however, prefer a program of faith plus antiretrovirals.
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When rare 9-month-old conjoined twins died, some offered help and support while others said the family was cursed.
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For young Cameroonian girls, illegitimate pregnancies mean social and economic devastation, leading them to seek dangerous, illegal abortions from unlicensed sources.
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TMP speaks with 2011 Africa Film Project alum Irene Zih Fon about her latest short documentary on the struggles of albinos in Cameroon.
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The patriarchal nature of African society extends right into the newsroom where male journalists are given pride of place over females, regardless of competence.
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Yvonne Chi tells us more about her ongoing interest in the issue of oppressive widowhood rituals in Cameroon, a topic she first reported on in 2010.
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Corrupting ‘brown envelopes’ pollute everything they touch. And they mutate. Their dynamics vary from one beat to another, from the lower cadre to the high echelon of a news organization.
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In local Ugandan parlance, Christmas is "eaten". One of my spiritual mentors says of the so-called festive season, “We feast when we should be fasting”.
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The "culture of silence" journalists so often refer to is really a "conspiracy of silence", preventing a known problem from being publicly acknowledged.
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