By Eric Opa Doue with New Narratives BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa – Forty years ago Atlantic Street was one of this port city’s busiest streets, humming with stores and chop shops. Today it is almost deserted. The encroaching shoreline has swallowed up structures and is threatening to take out the street itself. Bobby Gibson’s father used to run…
Alex Weah had no clue that the sea would swallow up his home when he built his six bedroom house here. But the Community Youth Chairman and senior student at the United Methodist University watched helplessly in 2017 as the sea quickly overtook the house. “The sea was coming closer but we were thinking that…
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…
