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Meet the first gay Nigerian to come out on TV
What is Nigeria's new anti-gay law?
Christiane Amanpour speaks with CNN's Vladimir Duthiers in Lagos, Nigeria about a new anti-gay law.
By Mick Krever, CNN
In 2004, Bisi Alimi did an extraordinary thing.
He went on national television and told his fellow Nigerians that he was gay.
Alimi lived in a country not only where open discussion of sex and sexuality is considered déclassé, but where 98% of his fellow citizens now say they do not approve of homosexuality.
“There were so many things we don’t talk about,” Alimi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday. “My career was on the line, I was going to be outed by the media.”
It was better, he decided, to come out of the closet on his own terms.
“I have a responsibility to stand up for the community, to give a face to the community, to demystify the old arguments that there are no homosexuals in Nigeria,” he said.
Navigating Silicon Valley as a woman – and a Zuckerberg
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Randi Zuckerberg, Former Facebook Marketing Director and sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, about navigating the technology world.
Click above to watch.
Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Randi Zuckerberg will be online tomorrow, Friday.
Photographer describes his 81 days of captivity in Syria
By Mick Krever, CNN
The first five weeks of photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie’s captivity among Syrian rebels were the most difficult.
“They would force me to wrestle with them, to show me how tough they were, and they snapped my ribs on the right so I couldn’t breathe for a while,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
It was “just amusement” to them, he said.
“I was handcuffed for about five weeks, to a bed mostly; and the first three weeks, I was blindfolded.”
At least 29 journalists were killed in Syria last year, and some 60 others abducted.
Alpeyrie was kidnapped by an armed rebel group at a checkpoint near Damascus last April. He would be held for 81 days.
Stunning new footage of defiance emerges from North Korea
North Korea: "The Impossible State"
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Victor Cha, Former Director of Asian Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council.
By Mick Krever, CNN
A groundbreaking new documentary is using smuggled footage to paint a new and dramatic picture of the Hermit Kingdom, North Korea.
Much of the world sees North Koreans as brainwashed and subservient, bowing down to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
The Frontline documentary “Secret State of North Korea” from the American public broadcaster PBS shows that for many people in North Korea, just the opposite is true.
“We saw lots of examples of people standing up to authority in ways that we hadn’t expected,” Director James Jones told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
One of the most dramatic pieces of footage was of a woman, who has set up a private bus service using a pickup truck.
“This soldier comes and tells her to stop running this private bus service, which is illegal,” Jones said. “And rather than, as you would expect, saying, ‘I’m so sorry,’ and apologizing, she stands up for it – I mean, literally chases him off down the street, smacking him on the back, calling him every name under the sun.”
Meet the 32-year-old militiaman holding Libya’s oil hostage
By Mick Krever, CNN
A 32-year-old Libyan militia leader, sitting since July on billions of dollars of oil in the eastern part of the country, was defiant in an exclusive interview Tuesday with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
“This government has allowed Libya to become one of the most corrupted five states in the world,” Ibrahim Jadran said through an interpreter. “The government is not able to defend itself.”
Perhaps no single person better illustrates the post-war woes of Libya than Jadran.
In 2012, he was entrusted by the government to guard Libya's crucial eastern oil ports.
But last July he went rogue, seizing the ports – blocking oil exports – and demanding more autonomy and shared revenues for his eastern region, which he calls by its ancient Roman name, Cyrenaica.
Amanpour confronts Egyptian businessman over jailing of journalists
Egypt businessman on the state of Egypt
Naguib Sawiris Egyptian businessman financially backed anti-Morsy protests
By Mick Krever, CNN
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday confronted Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris over the jailing of three al Jazeera journalists in that country.
Sawiris – one of Egypt’s wealthiest citizens, founder of the Free Egyptians Party and former chairman of the telecom giant Orascom – provided financial support for the opposition to former President Mohamed Morsy.
Peter Greste, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed from Al Jazeera English were arrested by Egyptian authorities on December 29 and have been held since.
Egyptian authorities say the journalists held illegal meetings with the Muslim Brotherhood, which was declared a terrorist group last month.
“Three of my colleagues are in jail for doing their job, as you know well,” Amanpour said.
Sawiris raised doubts about the journalists’ credentials to be in the country, and said that al Jazeera was “fabricating” stories.
“These are allegations that they’ve obviously denied, and we deny it on behalf of our colleagues as well,” Amanpour said.
Click above to see Amanpour’s full interview with Sawiris.
After 43 years, FBI burglars come clean
"The Fight of the Century"
CNN's Christiane Amanpour tells the story of the fight that provided cover for a 1971 break-in at the FBI.
By Mick Krever, CNN
The night of March 8, 1971 was the night for the “Fight of the Century” – Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frazier – at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden.
Millions of fans around the country were glued to their radios to hear the broadcast – millions, that is, except for eight unlikely burglars, who used the fight as the perfect distraction for their infiltration of J. Edgar Hoover’s feared FBI.
Using lock picks and crowbars, the activists – among them a young married couple with children, a cab driver, and a religion professor – broke into a suburban Pennsylvania FBI office.
Despite a massive FBI manhunt, the burglars were never caught; the statute of limitations ran out, and their identities were never known. Until now.
U.S. hails implementation of interim Iran deal
By Mick Krever, CNN
The implementation of an interim deal with Iran is a “positive” and “concrete” step towards curbing that country’s nuclear program, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary David Cohen told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
The agreement, which was negotiated late last year in Geneva, will come in effect on January 20; and the U.S. Treasury was a major player in negotiating it.
The idea behind the deal is to create an amenable environment, for six months, during which time Iran and world powers can try to agree on a more comprehensive, permanent accord.
So just what is in the deal?
Setting a new Iran to music
Exposure to violence alters a child’s brain, says Camila Batmanghelidjh
By Mick Krever, CNN
Continuous exposure of violence actually changes the structure of a child’s brain, Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder and director of the renowned UK charity Kids Company, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
Batmanghelidjh has devoted her life to helping the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Fifty percent of the children assessed by the Kids Company and University College London had witnessed shooting and stabbings in the past year, and many had themselves been targeted.
“As children are continuously frightened, they release vast amounts of fright hormones, and that is changing actually the structure and functioning of their brain to make the children develop very narrowed, aggressive behaviors in order to survive in very challenging neighborhoods.”
“These kids are ending up underachieving in school, not being able to calm down, because actually the biology of their brain has changed as a result of how badly they've been continuously treated.”
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