{"id":20879,"date":"2019-10-31T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p07sm94t"},"modified":"2019-10-31T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:45:00","slug":"the-zogos-of-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/10\/31\/the-zogos-of-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zogos of Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"When Miatta was 14 years old, armed rebels stormed into her classroom and forcibly recruited her and her classmates. They were trained to use machine guns and then sent to the front line to fight in Liberia\u2019s devastating civil war.\n\nNineteen years later, Miatta is what many Liberians would call a Zogo. The Zogos are Liberia\u2019s underclass: jobless, homeless and addicted to drugs. They\u2019re a menace on the streets of the capital, Monrovia, where many make their living by snatching purses and phones from passers-by. \n\nIn this Assignment, Lucy Ash follows a projects aiming to rehabilitate hundreds of Liberia\u2019s Zogos \u2013 including Miatta. \n\nProducer: Josephine Casserly \n\n(Image: A mural in the Liberian capital called Female Zogos of Monrovia. They are sitting on gravestones because many are homeless and seek refuge in cemeteries. Credit: James Giahyue)\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07sm94t\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Miatta was 14 years old, armed rebels stormed into her classroom and forcibly recruited her and her classmates. They were trained to use machine guns and then sent to the front line to fight in Liberia\u2019s devastating civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen years late&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598699,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions\/1598699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}