Kate Thomas
Kate Thomas worked on the foreign desks of two national British papers before heading to Africa as a stringer. After two years in post-conflict Liberia, she now roams a little more freely, documenting human stories in fragile parts of Africa and the world. Kate writes for major newspapers and magazines worldwide, collaborates with aid agencies and is also a travel writer for Bradt and Loney Planet.
Liberia's child soldiers take up arms again - for the movies
Author: Kate Thomas
Samuel Zezey is patrolling the oldest bridge in Monrovia. He has an AK-47 slung over his shoulder but he's wearing a baby blue tracksuit with a picture of a teddy bear on it. He's 17 years old.
As I walk up to him he greets me with a cheeky smile and shakes my hand the Liberian way, clicking his fingers against mine as he pulls away. "Over there," he says, pointing at a beach coated in rubbish. "That's where I killed my uncle."
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Author: Kate Thomas
Samuel Zezey is patrolling the oldest bridge in Monrovia. He has an AK-47 slung over his shoulder but he's wearing a baby blue tracksuit with a picture of a teddy bear on it. He's 17 years old.
As I walk up to him he greets me with a cheeky smile and shakes my hand the Liberian way, clicking his fingers against mine as he pulls away. "Over there," he says, pointing at a beach coated in rubbish. "That's where I killed my uncle."
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Checkout day looms for Liberian war displaced
Author: Kate Thomas
Thirty years ago, the Ducor Hotel in Monrovia was one of the most exclusive places to stay in Liberia. Overlooking the blue-green waters of the North Atlantic, its tiled balconies, tennis courts and signature French restaurant made it popular with honeymooning couples from Ghana and Ivory Coast. It was paradise - a sanctuary.
Today, after 13 years of civil war in Liberia, the hotel is a shell. Liberia's long conflict, led by Charles Taylor, now awaiting trial for war crimes in The Hague, left 250,000 people dead, destroyed the country's infrastructure and drove half the population from their homes.
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Author: Kate Thomas
Thirty years ago, the Ducor Hotel in Monrovia was one of the most exclusive places to stay in Liberia. Overlooking the blue-green waters of the North Atlantic, its tiled balconies, tennis courts and signature French restaurant made it popular with honeymooning couples from Ghana and Ivory Coast. It was paradise - a sanctuary.
Today, after 13 years of civil war in Liberia, the hotel is a shell. Liberia's long conflict, led by Charles Taylor, now awaiting trial for war crimes in The Hague, left 250,000 people dead, destroyed the country's infrastructure and drove half the population from their homes.
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