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GEELARDRO, Sinoe County – Community members here in Tartweh and Drapoe chiefdoms are fuming over a range of what they claim are violations of Liberian laws by the country’s forest management body the Forestry Development Agency.By Eric Opa Doue with

MONROVIA – The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) has banned a Turkish logging company and barred its shareholders for illegal logging activities in Liberia, the agency said in a press release on Tuesday.By James Harding Giahyue, Contributing Write

Monrovia – A witness testifying before a Finnish court in Monrovia has said that Gibril Massaquoi, a former commander of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was embroiled in a heated verbal standoff with Joseph “Zizar Marzah”, a key fight

MONROVIA—Finnish prosecutors in the ongoing appeal hearings of Gibril Massaquoi, a former commander of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front have expressed confidence in witnesses testifying on their behalf, despite concerns about inconsistencies

In part two of this two-part series with New Narratives Eric Opa Doue finds widespread opposition from teachers and civil society to government’s privatization of schools and a plea to government to abandon the scheme and let counties take charge.YAR

In 2016 Kenyan-Based Bridge International Came To Save Liberia’s Schools. In This Two-Part Series with New Narratives Eric Opa Doue Finds Bridge Schools Doing Little Better Than State Schools.YARPAH TOWN, River Cess County - Babygirl Smith helps her

TIAH TOWN, Nimba County – Fifty-two-year-old Elizabeth Zialue traveled 55 kilometers from Tiah Town in Nimba to Boegeezay Town in River Cess County to seek treatment for her two-year-old grandson. Medical services in the Boegeezay community are free

ZAMMIE TOWN, River Cess County – Water dictates the lives of people in this part of central River Cess. With just three hand pumps to supply a town of 7,000, women and children here wake as early as 3 am to fetch water from distant creeks.But the cre

A file picture dated 4 October 2010 of then alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout inside a cell at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand. Picture Credit: EPABy James Harding Giahyue with The DayLightMONROVIA – The United States has proposed a pri

This two-part series by Eric Opa Doue with New Narratives examines the county’s school system.Jerome Toe is the only teacher at the Gborwuzohn Public School. Photo Credit: Aaron Geezay.MONWEH, River Cess- Jacob Beegar sits on a rattan chair under a p