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Christopher Allen
Freelance
South Sudan
American freelance reporter Christopher Allen was drawn to dangerous places. In August 2017, Allen was embedded with rebel forces in South Sudan to document the civil war that had raged there for four years. Fighting broke out along the Ugandan border. A rebel fighter said Allen was wearing a jacket that was clearly labeled "press," but Allen was shot in the head. He died instantly. South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei Lueth told Voice of America that Allen was a "white rebel" who had been barred from the country for his "hostile reports." But a family friend said, "He went to South Sudan for the same reason all good journalists go to trouble spots: to get the story and to bring that story to the world's attention." Allen's stories were published by The Independent, The Telegraph, the BBC and Vice. Allen was 26. |