Monrovia – Since the recent increase in calls for the establishment of a war and economic crimes court, many victims of Liberia’s 14-year brutal civil war are speaking out about their painful ordeals at the hands of warring factions. They are also joining call and urging major state actors to push for the establishment of…
Call for Applications for the West Africa Justice Reporting Project
New Narratives, a non-governmental organization that has been driving improvement in Liberia’s media sector for 9 years, is excited to announce a major new reporting project in Liberia and Sierra Leone – The West Africa Justice Reporting Project. WAJRP is running from 2018-2020 and will feature training, mentoring and capacity building for Liberian journalists and…
Leslie Lumeh Court Illustrator
LESLIE LUMEH is New Narratives’ court artist. He traveled to Switzerland in December 2019 to illustrate the historic trial of Alieu Kosiah, the first Liberian tried for war crimes in the Liberian civil war and also illustrated the trial of Gibril Massaquoi, the Sierra Leonean former Revolutionary United Front commander, by a court from Finland….
Quiet Pursuit of War Criminals Signals Hope Against Impunity
Monrovia – When jurors in a U.S. Federal Courthouse in the city of Brotherly Love found former Liberian rebel commander Mohammed Jabbateh, aka “Jungle Jabbah,” guilty of two counts of fraud and two counts of perjury for lying to U.S. government officials about his role as a combatant in the Liberian Civil War, last week, it…
NN Writes on our Role in the Ban on Female Genital Cutting
NN’s Mae Azango and Prue Clarke write on the role of good journalism in breaking the taboo around female genital cutting in Liberia that led to its eventual ban for the Columbia Journalism Review. PRESIDENT ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF left office in January with a tremendous, if overdue, parting gift for the girls of Liberia….
New Narratives Reporters Profiled in Forbes Africa
“I like to talk to the common people, I don’t like politics.” Mae Azango sits on the edge of her bed in her old home that is wedged in a rocky enclave between the gray United States embassy and the modern apartments occupied by expatriate workers in Mamba Point, the poshest part of Monrovia, Liberia….
Moses Bailey NN Reporting Fellow, Alum
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 Alum
Alpha Daffae Senkpeni is Executive Director and Editor of Local Voices Liberia. Previously he was sub-editor of FrontPage Africa newspaper based in Monrovia. He was a New Narratives fellow from 2017- 2023. Amongst several of his beats, he has a special interest in health, rule of law as well as women and girls’ issues. He…
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 graduated from the Peter Quaqua School of Journalism and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Public Administration from the University of Liberia. Parnneh began…
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…