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Oct 2020
25m 36s

Défier un dictateur (Defying a Dictator)

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When a young attorney from Chad decided to take on the ex-dictator who terrorized her country, she knew she was going up against dark and powerful forces. But that didn’t stop her from dedicating her life to fighting for justice in her homeland.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3fXuAaY.

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