Liberia: Health Authorities Prepare for Deadly Mpox Strain
Countries across Africa are on guard as a more severe strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has killed 1000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and sickened more than 30,000….
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Liberia Avoids the Deadly Mpox Strain for Now but Health Care Workers Say They Need More Supplies
Junior cries to his mother as another stranger approaches the front of their house. The two-year-old has met too many new people since he came down with mpox in August….
Yankuba JallowJustice Correspondent, Foroyaa News
Yankuba Jallow is New Narratives’ Justice Correspondent in The Gambia. He covers all aspects of The Gambia’s transitional justice process including the establishment of a hybrid court and the implementation of other recommendations of the country’s Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. Yankuba is a law student and an editor at Foroyaa Newspaper in the Gambia, established in 1987….
10,000 Mpox Vaccine Doses on the Way to Liberia
Liberia is set to receive 10,000 doses of the mpox vaccine to help protect the country from the outbreak which has claimed at least 1,000 lives worldwide….
Garmai TarnueReporting Fellow, Radio Gbarnga
Garmai Tarnue works for Radio Gbarnga in Bong County as a reporter since 2020, starting off as an intern. Garmai launched her journalism career as a then 12-year-old student. She followed her dream after completing grade school and was awarded a certificate in journalism and leadership capacity by the Bong chapter of the Young Men…
Joseph DanielsReporting Fellow, OkayFM
Joseph Daniels reports for OK FM Liberia, a privately owned independent Media outlet in Monrovia. With a vested interest in making the voices of people from different walks of life heard, he has covered investigative stories relating to Education, Health, the Environment Corruption and Violence against Women and Girls among others. He graduated from the United Methodist…
Siaway MiapueReporting Fellow
Siaway Miapue is an award-winning investigative journalist with seven years of experience. Known for producing compelling stories with a focus on health and environmental reporting, he was honored in 2023 as the recipient of Liberia’s first Young Journalist Award, funded by USAID Media Activities through Internews, a global development media organization. Miapue is currently a contributing…
Gloria WlehReporting Fellow
Gloria Wleh reports for New Narratives and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development’s (CJID) fact-checking and media literacy arm, Dubawa. She is a 2022/2023 fellow of the Kwame Karikari Fact-checking Fellowship, a 2023 fellow of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), amongst others. Gloria has received numerous local and international certifications in her over…
Photos: Four out of ten households in Ga South engage in open burning of waste
The open burning of waste in residential areas affects many people in Ghana as it pollutes the air and limits air quality. This age-old habit remains rampant in many communities across the country….
Liberia: Logging Company EJ&J Shipped US$3 million in Lumber Despite Telling Community Exports were Halted; FDA Fails to Act
Water dictates the lives of people in this part of central River Cess. With just three hand pumps to supply a town of 7,000, women and children here wake as early as 3 am to fetch water from distant creeks. But the creek water carries dangers….
Liberia: Jungle Energy Power: A Local Power Company Bringing Comfort to Rural Communities
Samuel G. Youhn, 62, has lived almost his entire life without electricity. His native Nimba County, like every part of Liberia, felt the pinch of the country’s brutal civil wars that destroyed electricity and other infrastructure, in addition to the estimated 250,000 lives they claimed. …
Liberians Turn to Facebook to Find “Good Samaritans” to Fill In Gaps As Healthcare System Fails Them
Like too many people across Liberia Fatu Washington spent much of her youth “living with rejection from friends and neighbors”, as she put it, in her home village of ‘Joseph Town’ in Bomi County….
Blind Women Defy Disabilities to Become Entrepreneurs
Blindness is one of the many tragedies that Liberians suffer at higher rates than people in other countries because of limited medical care. As many 22,000 Liberians suffer from impaired vision….
Presidential Candidate Tiawan Gongloe Promises to Sweep Corruption from Liberia, But Can He Win Over Voters?
Counsellor Tiawan Saye Gongloe, a veteran statesman and human rights lawyer, is one of few of the 20 presidential candidates in next week’s election with a detailed plan to fix Liberia’s problems….
At 78, Boakai Claims Age Makes Him the Best President. Critics Say He’s Too Old and Alliance with Johnson Will Hurt Liberia
With just weeks to the presidential election, pundits say Joseph Boakai, standard-bearer of the Unity Party (UP), presents a serious threat to George Weah, the incumbent president. …
As Instability Sweeps, West African Leaders Plead With Liberian Party Chiefs to Stop Inflammatory Comments
A series of violent incidents by political partisans, and inflammatory comments from party leaders, has Liberians on edge in the runup to next month’s presidential and legislative elections….
Nimba First-Time Voters Say Education Most Important Issue in Choosing President, in Survey
They’re a big group of new voters, in the country’s second-largest county. First-time voters in Nimba will have a major impact in next month’s election so there is a lot of interest in how they will vote. …
The Physically Challenged Candidate Running For Office
Our coverage of election-related activities is not only about presidential candidates. We are also spotlighting representative candidates and their platforms for their constituents. …
Candidate Wants To Boost Representation Of Liberia’s Million People With Disabilities
If resilience were all that was needed to win election, Samuel Dean would win in a landslide. The 45-year-old, who is contesting the Montserrado County District #8 seat against sitting representative Acarous Moses Gray, has had an extraordinary journey—escaping wartime Liberia as a teenager, being shot by police in New York City and, finally, using his payout to help hundreds of Liberians with disabilities….
Liberia’s First-time Voters Overwhelmingly Back a War Crimes Court Survey Finds
As Liberia commemorates 20 years since the end of the civil conflict that left devastated the country and left 250,000 people dead, a survey of first-time voters conducted in two of the country’s biggest counties found overwhelming support for a court….
In Liberia Drug Addiction Is Becoming A Major Problem. Here’s What Presidential Candidates Plan to Do About It
Drug abuse is a growing problem in Liberia. There is no reliable data on user numbers but one study, by the United Nations Population Fund, found a staggering one in five Liberian youth take narcotics. …