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Teachers and Parents Demand Bridge Schools Leave Liberia, Government Concedes it’s Impossible to Keep Out Tainted Drugs and the Latest on Human Trafficking and War Crimes Trials

In this episode .. Seven years since us-based Bridge International Academies arrived in Liberia to overhaul schools, experts, teachers and parents say it’s time to end the experiment.

After scores of children were killed by tainted imported medicines in The Gambia, what is being done to protect Liberians? 

A Liberian security agent becomes the first government official convicted of human trafficking. He’s serving 25 years in prison as authorities close in on others. But what’s happening to the women who returned home?  

And Finnish prosecutors are appealing last year’s acquittal of former Revolutionary United Front commander Gibril Massaquoi on charges he committed war crimes in Liberia. The appeal is hearing testimony in Liberia. We get the latest.  

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