Wikipedia - "Camille Lepage (January 28, 1988 – May 9, 2014) was a French photojournalist who was killed during the conflict in the Central African Republic in 2014. Her death was described as a 'murder' by the French presidency and it marked the first death of a Western journalist in the conflict. ... Lepage spoke passionately about the seriousness of the news stories surrounding the Central African Republic conflict that are not covered by the mainstream media: 'I can’t accept that people’s tragedies are silenced simply because no one can make money out of them,' she said. 'I decided to do it myself, and bring some light to them no matter what.' A week before her death, Lepage's last entries on Instagram and Twitter said that she was traveling by motorbike for hours with an anti-balaka militia down routes chosen to avoid checkpoints of African peacekeepers to Amada Gaza about 120 km away from Berbérati, where 150 people had been killed by Séléka rebels since March. On May 13, 2014, Lepage's body was found by French troops patrolling in the Bouar region in the west of the country in a vehicle driven by anti-balaka rebels."
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