Seven months after President Joseph Boakai halted Liberia’s national ID rollout to fix problems
in the system, the program is still not running. Officials say the country cannot access its
biometric database because the government owes 1.7 million dollars to the company that built it.

The delay means millions of Liberians remain outside the system. Tetee Gebro reports in this
collaboration with New Narratives

This story was a collaboration with New Narratives as part of the Investigating Liberia project. Funding was provided by Susan and David Marcinek and the Swedish Embassy in Liberia. The funders had no say in the story’s content.