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Annie Curran is a senior at Annandale High School and the Editor-in-Chief of its newspaper. This past summer, she and five other Annandale students traveled to Lanzhou, China, to participate in...

2011 IREX Annual Report

Our work today reaches and helps more people than ever before in our history. These stories highlight just a handful of the 300,000 people IREX has helped this year.

Liberia Election

Reflections of a Voter in Liberia's presidential elections October 2011

Liberia Elections 2011

In October, for just the second time since its 14 year long civil war ended, Liberians went to the polls to elect a president and national legislature.  This test was widely seen as a...

Posted on October 26, 2011 - Andrew Clayton in Conflict Resolution, Media Development
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"In the house we have two televisions. On one them the children watch cartoons, while on my TV in the kitchen I watch mainly local news. I do watch RTS, Prva TV and B92, but on these TV...

Tawakul Karman

IREX congratulates Nobel Peace Prize winners Tawakul Karman from Yemen, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee. They exemplify the power of women...

Posted on October 3, 2011 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Media Development
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Liberian Journalists

The world is anxiously watching to see how the October 11 presidential elections in post-conflict Liberia will proceed. The country has come far in its post-conflict recovery, but even with...

When I began working with journalists, editors and civil society leaders- and the public they serve- in countries where media freedom is not a given, one of the first things I noticed was the...

Jocelyn Grange, a media consultant working for IREX in Chad, writes about two community radio stations and the dedicated journalists...