Mali: juntas and jihadists jeopardise journalists by Peter Chilson In 1988 Clarence Roy-Macaulay, a Sierra Leonean freelance journalist based in Freetown, the capital, gave a couple of visiting foreign journalists a crash course in national politics. At the time a good-natured and famously gargantuan career soldier named Joseph Saidu Momoh was president and the country was at peace. Sierra Leone’s nightmare of civil war, child soldiers, random amputations and blood diamonds—one of the most horrific human rights stories in the history of modern independent Africa— was four years away. Still, even in an empty hotel dining room Mr Roy-Macaulay did…
