
Liberian Journalist Sentenced To 5,000 Years In Prison Laments Ordeal
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rodney D Sieh, editor of Liberia’s FrontPageAfrica, reflects on what his career says about the state of journalism in West Africa. “My claim to infamy was being sentenced to 5,000 years in prison for failing to pay libel damages of $1.6m (£1.2m) won by a former minister who sued my paper after…