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  • Iron ore being transported across Liberia. Credit: jbdodane.
    LiberiaSociety

    The unaccountability of Liberia’s polluting miners

    By Margaret Nigba
    January 25, 2023
    The government’s reports and fines have not yet been sufficient to stop communities suffering from poisoned rivers. Last May in Grand Cape Mount County, ...
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  • High school students sit an exam in Rivercess County, Liberia. Credit: Faces – Together Liberia – Bruce Strong.
    LiberiaSociety

    Liberia’s scrapping of tuition fees splits opinion

    By Dounard Bondo
    January 20, 2022
    Liberia’s free education policies seem to have alleviated one big problem but exacerbated another. For much of Charles’ time as a school student, his ...
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  • LiberiaSociety

    “Acknowledgement and an apology”: Healing old wounds in Liberia

    By Catherine Mgendi
    October 22, 2021
    While Liberia contends with how to deliver justice for the greatest atrocities in the civil war, Palava Huts are bringing reconciliation at the local ...
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  • fake news covid. Distributing COVID-19 relief packages in Liberia. Credit: IDWF.
    LiberiaPoliticsSociety

    Liberia must fight its fake news epidemic to fight the pandemic

    By Ibrahim Al-bakri Nyei
    August 5, 2021
    Covid conspiracy theories are rife in Liberia. To handle this and future crises, the government will have to tackle this problem from its roots. ...
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  • Covid-19LiberiaSierra LeoneSociety

    They survived Ebola. Now they want to teach others to survive COVID-19. 

    By Osman Benk Sankoh
    July 8, 2020
    Ebola survivors across West Africa could be a very useful knowledge resource to governments in their pandemic response strategies. Will they take the opportunity?  ...
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    Africa InsidersLiberia

    Africa Insiders: Is Liberia ready to address war crimes?

    By Africa Insiders
    September 18, 2019
    The essentials: Liberia’s President George Weah is making moves that may lead to the establishment of an economic and war crimes court. This week, ...
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  • Is President Weah's focus on the former government just a distraction? Credit: jbdodane.
    LiberiaPolitics

    Missing billions, losing patience: Liberia probe targets former officials

    By Stephen D. Kollie
    September 10, 2019
    Under pressure over the economy and corruption, President Weah has launched a controversial anti-graft investigation. On 26 August, five former central bank officials pleaded ...
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  • An aerial view of Monrovia, Liberia, which saw thousands of people take to the streets to protest earlier this month. Credit: UN Photo/Christopher Herwig.
    EconomyLiberiaPolitics

    “Not the change we voted for”: Liberia awaits more protests as anger rises

    By Stephen D. Kollie
    June 27, 2019
    Following the 7 June protests, the organisers gave President Weah a one-month ultimatum to act. That deadline is fast-approaching. It has now been almost ...
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  • Liberia court: Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Liberia's consecutive civil wars. Credit: Mark Fischer.
    LiberiaSociety

    “You have to face justice so I can get peace”: Calls for war court in Liberia

    By Lucinda Rouse
    February 14, 2019
    15 years after the brutal war ended, no one has been prosecuted in Liberia and many victims feel they’ve been forgotten. In July 1990, ...
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  • Credit: EC/ECHO.
    GuineaLiberiaSierra LeoneSociety

    Insiders Insight: Stealing blood from West Africa

    By Africa Insiders
    February 12, 2019
    African Arguments is and always will be freely-accessible to everyone. But we also have a separate spin-off product called the Insiders Newsletter. It consists of weekly emails with additional ...
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