Blog: Liberia’s journalists wary as authorities announce new press passes, threaten shutdowns

[Jonathan R]

When the coronavirus arrived in Liberia, local journalists knew what it meant to report on a deadly, infectious disease; six years earlier they had donned personal protective equipment (PPE) to report on the Ebola crisis, Musa Kenneh, the Press Union of Liberia’s secretary general, told CPJ. But this time, Kenneh said, threatening comments from government officials have added more hazard to a dangerous job.

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