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Evan Williams

Evan Williams has been a print, radio and television journalist for 30 years, most recently specializing in international TV current affairs programs, documentaries and investigations usually in hostile environments.

Now working through his own London-based company, Evan Williams Productions, his team won a 2015 Emmy Television Award in the U.S. for “Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine” for the FRONTLINE film Hunting Boko Haram — an investigation into the Nigerian military’s use of indiscriminate violence and systematic human rights abuses against innocent civilians in its campaign against the Islamist terror group Boko Haram.

The 48-minute UK version titled Nigeria’s Hidden War, broadcast by...

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