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Live tonight: Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army
Live Broadcast by Ustream.TV We'll be discussing whether it's the end for Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army at the Frontline Club tonight, 16 April, at 7pm GMT/11am PST. As usual, if you can't make it to the Club in person, we'll be streaming the event live on the...more
Finbarr O' Reilly in Congo
Reuters photographer Finbarr O'Reilly has been travelling through the Democratic Republic of Congo taking some incredible photographs along the way. The Boston Herald showcases 38 images as a part of their excellent Big Picture series. Reuters recently held a live chat with Finbarr in Liberia which we hosted on this...more
Broke without fixers
Jonathan Miller writes about the "secret weapon" of television news on the Channel 4 World News blog. He's talking about the fixers he's worked with in the DRC, Zimbabwe, Gaza, Pakistan, Serbia and Sudan. "When fixers deliver," Miller says, "We make good telly," Fixers are all-too-often the unsung heros...more
Finbarr O' Reilly discusses Congo LIVE
Reuters snapper Finbarr O' Reilly will be discussing his experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo and what first took him to Africa live online today, Wednesday, Jan. 14. Finbarr will use the excellent mobile phone video broadcast tool Qik to broadcast live at 17.00 GMT / 1200 ET....more
The life of a journalist is quite lonely
Marcus Bleasdale, photojournalist, Frontline Club member and regular on this blog, talks in the Daily Telegraph about how he got into photojournalism in his late twenties after a successful career in banking. Fascinating to hear more about his path into photography and how working the war zone beat has...more
Micahel J. Kavanagh and Taylor Krauss reporting from Congo
Michael J. Kavanagh, from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, reports from a refugee camp in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with footage from cameraman Taylor Krauss. Earlier today we blogged how the two got caught up with the secret police in the DRC. You can read the full...more
Detained by Congo secret police
Cameraman Taylor Krauss was held by secret police in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week. He talks about the experience on the World Focus site, I knew a padded handshake could solve things in a country where [former president] Mobutu used to tell his citizens to “fend for...more
Didace Namujimbo shot dead in South Kivu
Didace Namujimbo, a radio journalist with the UN-backed Radio Okapi station, was shot dead on Friday night. He is the second journalist from the station to have been shot dead in the South Kivu provincial capital Bukavu in the last eighteen months, "Once again a Radio Okapi journalist has...more
Our man in Goma
The Ihusi Hotel, Goma I'm finding it pretty tough to pity Rob out in Goma at the moment. I know hotels can get a bit a dull a bit quickly, but come on Rob... Mustn't grumble, ehh?...more
Congo - Condition Critical
[video:youtube:I-LJEdCiMEc] Médecins Sans Frontières launch their Congo - Condition Critical campaign this Thursday. Last week I did some training for the folks at the MSF offices in London and promised to give this very worthwhile campaign a push here. If you can help MSF get the word out, please do...more
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