Tetee Gebro is the Deputy Director General at ELBC, Liberia’s state broadcaster. She is a member of the board of directors of New Narratives Liberia. Tetee is a popular and highly regarded reporter and presenter in Liberia who launched her own show talk show Okay Liberia, in January 2016 on Okay FM 99.5. She was…
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New Narratives Coverage of Warlord Trial Makes International Media
New Narratives reporters covered the trial of Mohammed Jabateh, convicted of immigration fraud in a Philadelphia court in October 2017. Reporters Tetee Gebro, Jackson Kanneh, James Harding Giahyue provided extensive reporting in Liberia and in the court and Liberian community in Philadelphia. Court art was also done by NN visual artist Chase Walker. Please see…
Tetee Gebro Reflects on her Experience Reporting on the Oil Industry in Liberia
First off, a confession: even as the oil industry in Liberia made a lot of news in our country in the years from 2010, as a practicing journalist I knew very little about it. Like most of my peers, all I ever knew reporting on the sector came at the mercy of the National Oil…
Climate Change Threatens Liberia
With a global reliance on fossil fuel for energy, climate change is increasingly becoming a threat to human existence. Across the world catastrophic weather patterns are killing people and devastating agricultural activities. In our own region, one of the biggest inland water sources – Lake Chad – has almost disappeared. Drought and floods have…
Total Gas Stations Threaten Protected Wetlands
As the rest of the world struggles to come to terms with the effect of climate change, the poorest countries, like our own, are on the front lines. Scientists say the vast majority of climate change is caused by richer countries like the US and China, far out of our control. But an investigation by…
Child Labor Thrives in Liberia
In 2007, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf introduced a policy mandating that all primary school-age children go to school. Parents risk fines or even being jailed if their children work on the street instead of attending school. Nearly four years later, the streets of the capital, Monrovia, are still crowded with young school-age children who work…
Genital Cutting Threatens the Health of Liberia’s Women
The cultural practice of female genital cutting is rampant in Liberia, especially in the countryside. Parents send girls as young as infants to ceremonies conducted by a secretive indigenous religion known as the Sande to be cut without knowing the health risks involved. But openly talking about this secret rite of passage is taboo here. …
Liberians Can’t Afford Staple Rice
If a Liberian hasn’t eaten rice at least once during the day, then he will tell you that he really hasn’t eaten. But our staple food is becoming more expensive, as global food costs are skyrocketing. This is angering many Liberians, who say they’re going hungry as a result, and putting a strain on the…
Workers Protest Broken Promises by Foreign Palm Oil Company
More than two years ago the government of Liberia signed an agreement with Malaysian oil palm giant Sime Darby. As part of the $800 million dollar deal, Sime Darby pledged to build workers housing and hospitals and send their children to school. In a collaboration between New Narratives and Sky FM, Tetee Gebro visited the…
Liberian Government Neglects Mass Graves
It’s been seven years since the end of the civil war in Liberia, but there are still some gruesome reminders of the past. Mass graves haunt the capital. Former TRC Chairman Jerome Verdier is among several leading human rights advocates demanding the graves be opened and the dead be given proper burials. Tetee Gebro reports…