In this compelling Okay FM/New Narratives radio report, we travel to Liberia’s rural hinterlands where rising poverty and deepening inequality aren’t just statistics but daily realities reshaping lives and threatening stability. From farmers forced to abandon their fields to families struggling to send their children to school, we hear from those grappling with the widening divide between urban opportunities and rural hardship and how those pressures—compounded by climate shocks, limited services, and failed safety nets—are straining social cohesion and risking security in communities long left behind.
New Narratives’ Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh reports from Bomi County for Okay FM.
This story was a collaboration with New Narratives. Funding was provided by the American Jewish World Service and the Swedish Embassy in Liberia. The funders had no say in the story’s content. Prue Clarke contributed reporting.