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MOUNT BARCLAY, Montserrado-Trokon Blewolo, a teacher in the Mount Barclay community, waits every evening for his neighbors to turn on their lights before marking his students’ papers. Blewolo said he has had no electricity since November when his lin

SONKAY TOWN, Todee – This community on the outskirts of Liberia’s capital city is the frontline of one of the biggest cultural battles in the country’s recent history. Last month zoes, the traditional leaders who practice female genital cutting, surr

GARPUE TOWN, Grand Bassa County - Schools are now open in Liberia, but 14-year-old Tutugirl has not joined her classmates. Tutugirl says it has been impossible since she returned injured and traumatized from the “bush school” where she and her friend

Traditional Leaders Say They Will Not Stop Female Genital Cutting Without More MoneyIn part two of a two-part series Rita Jlogbe Doue finds traditional leaders are defying a three-year moratorium and continuing to kidnap girls for bush schools.GARPUE

Traditional Leaders Say They Will Not Stop Female Genital Cutting Without More MoneyIn part two of a two-part series Rita Jlogbe Doue finds traditional leaders are defying a three-year moratorium and continuing to kidnap girls for bush schools.GARPUE

MONROVIA – People with disabilities in Liberia find themselves in a precarious existence. As a West African country with nearly five million people, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) reports that the disability prevalenc

BAHN, Nimba – A total of 244 Ivorian Refugees including men, women, and children of 46 households on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, were repatriated to The Ivory Coast.According to the UNHCR, most of the refugees and asylum seekers who are returning home