Abdullah Dukuly (also known as Abdulai Dukuly and Abdoulaye W. Dukule) is a
Liberia
Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...
n journalist and news editor, formerly of ''
The News'', a
Monrovia
Monrovia () is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2008 census had 1,010,970 residents, home to 29% of Liberia’s total population. As the ...
-based daily publication.
Arrest
Dukuly was arrested along with fellow editors
Joseph Bartuah,
Jerome Dalieh, and journalist
Bobby Tapson on 21 February 2001 after ''The News'' reported the government of
Charles Taylor paid 50,000
United States dollar
The United States dollar ( symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the officia ...
s to fix helicopters rather than pay civil servants.
References
External links
* Abdoulaye W. Dukule
"Men and Women of the Liberian Press: War Heroes" The Perspective, 30 July 2002
Inter Press Service News Agency, 6 October 2003
* by Abdullah Dukuly
"LIBERIA: Before UN Sanctions Are Lifted, a Timber Industry Clean-Up" Inter Press Service News Agency, 31 March 2006
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Liberian journalists
People from Monrovia
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