Moses Bailey started his journalism career in 2010 as a reporter at Radio Gbarnga. He continues to report for the station along with Bush Chicken and Local Voice. Moses has been a New Narratives fellow since 2017. In a project on the extractives sector Moses’s reporting forced the Bong County superintendent to admit he had…
Joaquin Sendolo Alum
Joaquin Sendolo is press officer with Arcelor Mittal Liberia. He was previously a Senior Correspondent with New Narratives Liberia and a journalist with the Daily Observer newspaper where he is the Diplomatic correspondent and also works on the newspaper’s editorials. He has covered major international events including the Young African Leaders Initiative (now Mandela Washington…
Alpha Daffae Senkpeni NN Fellow and Reporter, Front Page Africa
Alpha Daffae Senkpeni is a multimedia journalist with over a decade experience. He is the Sub-Editor of FrontPage Africa newspaper based in Monrovia. He also coordinates a network of journalists in the country. He has been a New Narratives fellow since 2017. Amongst several of his beats, he has a special interest in health, rule…
Parnneh MallobeAlum
Parnneh Mallobe is a project officer with Accountability Lab Liberia. Before that she was with the Infinity Corporation (Power FM/TV). She was a fellow of New Narratives since 2017. Parnneh is a graduate of the Peter Quaqua School of Journalism, and a junior student at the University of Liberia. Parnneh began her career at Radio…
Bettie Johnson Mbayo NN Fellow, Senior Reporter, Front Page Africa
Bettie Johnson Mbayo is a Senior Reporter for Front Page Africa. She has been a journalist for more than seven years. Bettie is a prolific journalist whose reporting focuses on gender, health, economics, corruption and politics. As a Senior Reporter, she has investigated and reported at least 6 major scandals involving major security institutions in…
Lennart Dodoo NN Reporting Fellow, Front Page Africa News Desk Chief
Lennart Dodoo is the News Desk Chief of FrontPage Africa Newspaper and online news magazine. He began his journalism with the Daily Observer Newspaper where he served as a judicial correspondent. Lennart has been a New Narratives fellow since 2017. In 2010 Lennart moved on to the INSIGHT Newspaper where he reported mostly on crimes…
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…
NN editors launch “African Muckraking” at Global Journalism Conference
If you’re going to the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Johannesburg please come and join us for the launch of “African Muckraking: 100 Years of African Investigative Journalism” edited by Anya Schiffrin, Anton Harber and George Lugalambi. The book features groundbreaking work by our Mae Azango, introduced by our Executive Director Prue Clarke and by Liberian journalist legend…
NN’s Prue Clarke and Mae Azango on Sirleaf’s Legacy for Foreign Policy
The Tearing Down of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will leave office in January as one of the most celebrated African leaders of recent memory — outside of Liberia, that is. The first woman elected to lead a government in Africa, she has presided over a period of peace…
New Narratives/Thomson Reuters Begin Two New Reporting Projects
Monrovia – The new year will see two new training and reporting projects kick off for Liberia’s top journalists. The continuing collaboration between New Narratives Liberia and the Thomson Reuters Foundation will offer journalists the chance to learn about extractives industries and gain ongoing editorial and financial support to report on the mining, forestries, oil…
Falling Global Oil Prices has Big Impact on Liberians
The price of oil has fallen sharply around the world in the last year. That’s forced major companies like Chevron and Exxon Mobil, that were pouring millions into Liberia, to hold back and watch the global trend in the oil market. Despite their initial investment in the country, Chevron has pulled out for now and…
Oil Industry Chaos: Liberians Benefit From Low Oil Prices
Monrovia – The plunge in oil prices on the world market has dealt a devastating blow to Liberia’s oil industry dashing hopes that oil may have been the savior for Liberia’s struggling economy. But at the same time those low prices have been an expected boost to ordinary Liberians thanks to the sharply lower price…
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…
Call for Applicants for Extractives Reporting Program
The Thomson Reuters Foundation is working with New Narratives, a non-governmental organization that has been driving improvements in Liberia’s media sector for seven years, to run a program that supports Liberian media to cover the country’s extractives industry. Support for the project comes from GIZ. The program has a focus on mining, which is an…
Exxon Set to Drill – Are Liberians Ready For Jobs in Oil Industry?
Monrovia – Liberia’s oil industry is holding its breath waiting for the outcome of ExxonMobil exploration efforts by the end of the year. With global oil prices low, and little interest by big oil companies in Liberia’s yet unproven oil reserves, Exxon’s drilling operation may represent Liberia’s last chance of discovering oil for some time….
Passage of New Oil Law Offers Hope of Industry Restart
Monrovia – In this last of a three-part series on the survival of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) amid financial turmoil and the global oil crisis, we ask whether the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Law could save Liberia’s oil and gas sector from further decay. The recent passage of the Petroleum (Exploration and…
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…
NOCAL Slashes Costs To Survive As Income Dries Up
Monrovia – In this second of a three-part series on the survival of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) amid financial turmoil and the oil crisis we look closely at how the company is operating in these difficult times. NOCAL is cash-strapped and is no longer leading the promising Liberian oil and gas sector…
NOCAL Collapses One Year On – Liberia’s Oil Basin Goes Quiet
Monrovia – In this first part of three-part series on we look at what is currently happening in the Liberian oil basin one year on from the collapse of the National Oil Company of Liberia. What is the status of the different oil contracts between Liberia and oil companies and what does the future hold…
Liberians’ Health: Generators, Cars Posing Dangers to Residents
Monrovia – On June 19 this year, two men—Varnie Sarjue and Jusue Vannie – spent the night in the office of GMT Fishery in the Bong Mines Bridge community outside Monrovia. Both men were guarding the company’s properties, and on that fateful night Sarjue brought with him his girlfriend, Garmeh Howard. They put on a…