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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—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

The Finnish Court of Appeal begins hearing witnesses at a hotel in MonroviaBy Eric Opa Doue with New NarrativesMONROVIA- The first witness took the stand on Wednesday in the Liberia hearings of the appeal of former Revolutionary United Front commande

KENDEJA, Monrovia - The Liberian hearings in the appeal of a former Revolutionary United Front commander’s acquittal of war crimes charges in Finland, got underway in a Monrovia hotel today. In an exclusive interview Judge Vanne Kimmo conceded the Tu

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

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

MONWEH, River Cess – Jacob Beegar sits on a rattan chair under a palaver hut in Kporkon while his friends run around the hut. He seems not happy. The 15-year-old should be in the 4th grade at the nearby Giemengbleh Public School in Kporkon Monweh Dis