NN fellow Wade Williams and photographer Chase Walker have published the first interviews with openly gay men in Liberia. The story was published as gay rights activists have been attacked and faced death threats in the country. The reporting took considerable bravery on the part of our reporters, the interview subjects and FrontPage Africa editor…
At New Narratives we believe discussing issues in a public forum is the first step to finding solutions that will protect the rights of all people. For that reason we are proud that are reporter, FrontPage Africa editor Wade Williams has done the first interviews with gay Liberians to run in the country’s press. Prior to…
The THINK rape clinic in Monrovia, featured in New Narratives reporting on child rape, has been granted $50,000 by the US embassy in Liberia to keep up their outstanding work. A 3-year-old rape victim walked into the clinic when NN was reporting there in 2010. Said clinic supervisor Elizabeth Kekula: “We tell leaders that tiny children…
FrontPage Africa reporter Mae Azango has been selected as one of four African journalists to win a prestigious grant from the U.S.-based Pulitzer Center to cover reproductive health issues. Mae will join 3 other African journalists awarded the grants at the International Conference on Family Planning in Senegal from November 28 – December 3. The…
The Liberian Environmental Protection Authority has fined Malaysian Palm Oil giant Sime Darby $50,000 for violating it’s operating permit in the country. New Narratives reporting on the subject revealed that the company had evicted many local people from their homes and farms and had failed to build the schools, housing and sanitation promised as part…
Tecee Boley, NN fellow and Liberian Women’s Democracy Radio reporter, becomes the first Liberian to win a grant with the US based Pulitzer Center. Tecee will travel to Sweden to attend World Water Week – her first trip outside West Africa. Tecee and the Pulitzer Center will then travel to Liberia to report on the…
Liberian Police Chief George Bardu has demanded police arrest a policeman who was accused of raping an 11-year-old girl. The move comes a month after NN fellow Mae Azango and CUNY student and NN intern Ichi Vazquez broke the story in FrontPage Africa of a mother who reported the rape of her 11-year-old daughter to…
In a huge night for New Narratives two of our reporters won national reporting awards at the prestigious Press Union of Liberia awards. Tecee Boley of Liberian Democracy Radio was awarded Development Journalist of the Year. Clara Mallah of FrontPage Africa was awarded Women’s Reporter of the Year. They joined NN friend Eva Flomo of…
The UN Mission in Liberia has launched an investigation into the use of prostitutes by it’s 8000-strong force of peacekeepers in the country after NN fellows Clara Mallah and Tecee Boley reported on several young teenage girls who claimed to have slept with peacekeepers since they were as young as 9. The story entitled: “I…
NN reporters Clara Mallah of FrontPage Africa and Sonnie Morris of SkyFM have appeared at a panel convened by President Johnson Sirleaf and women’s rights activist Leymah Gbowee to testify on the widespread problems of child and teenage rape and prostitution in Liberia. In response President Johnson Sirleaf promised to build a safehouse for victims…
Four months after NN reporting first caused an uproar in Liberia and the Diaspora by exposing the widespread reliance on prostitution by children as young as 9 to survive Liberia President Johnson Sirleaf has talked of the issues in her annual State of the Nation address. Saying she was keenly aware of how important Liberia’s…
