Abdullah Dukuly (also known as Abdulai Dukuly and Abdoulaye W. Dukule) is a

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n journalist and news editor, formerly of '' The News'', a

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-based daily publication.

Arrest

Dukuly was arrested along with fellow editors

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, and journalist Bobby Tapson on 21 February 2001 after ''The News'' reported the government of Charles Taylor paid 50,000

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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 {{Liberia-bio-stub