In What Price the Story, the first programme of the series, veteran
African journalist Sorious Somara reveals why our team of reporters is prepared
to risk everything to reveal the truth. He has personal experience of the
dangers of investigative journalism in Africa; eleven years ago he was arrested
and tortured in Liberia while uncovering a story about Charles Taylor, the
country's then dictator, and a shady arms deal. Sorious was on assignment
for British and American TV at the time and the resulting international outcry
secured his release, but he knows that most of the continent's journalists do
not have that kind of protection…
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more: Al
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