As Liberia intensifies efforts to establish war and economic crimes and anti-corruption courts, the country’s Witness Protection Agency is working to build public trust while confronting significant challenges, including limited funding, a shortage of trained protection officers, lack of safe houses, and lingering public fears about retaliation. Agency Director Teklo Maxwell Grigsby II stressed that witnesses must believe the government can protect them if Liberia’s broader justice and accountability efforts are to succeed.

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This story was a collaboration with New Narratives as part of the Investigating Liberia project. Funding was provided by the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the European Union. The funders had no say in the story’s content.