Monrovia

March 07, 2017

Liberian women united behind the candidacy of a 60-something grandmother to lead their war-ravaged nation.

Culture

A young Liberian refugee, educated in America, chooses to move back 'home'

July 12, 2016

Mercy Krua is a Liberian refugee who lives in Boston. Her son, Jefferson Krua, was also a Liberian refugee. But he decided to move back to Liberia and make his life there. In part, he says, because no matter how much money he could make in the US, he would always be a black man in America.

Books

This children's book is starting a national conversation about corruption in Liberia

February 10, 2016

Liberian academic and author Robtel Neajai Pailey says children, with their curiosity and strong sense of right and wrong, are the natural audience for a book about corruption. So she wrote one.

Books

Once a refugee, she's opened one of Liberia's few bookstores, where children can read about themselves

January 30, 2016

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It's hard to learn to read when your country has been torn apart by war and disease. It's even harder when children's books come from far away. But Wayétu Moore, whose family fled Liberia's civil war when she was five, is setting out to change the odds for kids in Liberia and other countries with low literacy.

Medicine

West Africa is Ebola-free. Or is it?

January 14, 2016

Liberia is Ebola-free, says the World Health Organization. But experts say that the problem of Ebola is far from over.

Now that Ebola is subsiding, the question is what to do with contaminated sewage

March 04, 2015

Disposing of millions of tons of potentially Ebola infected human sewage is no easy task. But Liberia has is attempting its own solution.

As Ebola loosens grip, Liberia's schools begin re-opening

February 16, 2015

In Liberia, the first thing pupils do is have their temperatures taken. Schools had been shut for seven months after the Ebola outbreak.

Despite international aid, some Ebola workers are still 'on the frontlines with no ammunition'

December 16, 2014

There are plenty of kinds of workers mobilizing to fight Ebola in West Africa, not just doctors and nurses. They include "contact tracers," who monitor people and try to get them to respect quarantines. They say they're still doing a vital job without the tools they need.

Liberians worry that next week's elections might spread Ebola

December 11, 2014

Public concern about the spread of Ebola in Liberia seems to be waning, even though about 10 new cases continue to be reported in the capital Monrovia every day. Now the possibility of Senate elections there next week has health officials especially worried.

Liberia's forgotten prisoners

Business, Economics and Jobs

February 24, 2011

Thousands of people sit in Liberian jails for years, awaiting trial. Now there's a program aimed at fast-tracking these cases and getting people out of pre-trial detention. Jess Engebreston sits in on one of the proceedings.

Trash collection in Liberia

February 21, 2008

The World's Julia Kumari Drapkin reports on an effort to pick up the trash in Liberia: two Americans came up with the idea, after observing how uncollected garbage seemed to blight so much of the country's capital, Monrovia

Conflict & Justice

Fate of Deportees in Liberia

May 16, 2011

Immigration will be a major point of discussion for the new Congress. Correspondent Deepa Fernandes looks at how the African nation of Liberia has been treating, and often imprisoning, some people deported from the US.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — 'Ma Ellen' — and her Liberian Presidential Re-election Bid

September 30, 2011

Liberian incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is running for re-election. The women's vote helped put her in office last time. But many Liberian women are turning their back on the president

Reaction From Liberia on Nobel Prize

October 07, 2011

Not everyone is happy in Liberia about Sirleaf winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Despite Nobel Prize, Sirleaf's Re-Election Not Guaranteed

October 10, 2011

Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, but it's no guarantee that she'll win re-election on Tuesday.

Monrovia Protest Turns Deadly Ahead of Liberia's Presidential Run-off

November 07, 2011

At least one person has died after shots were reportedly fired during an opposition protest in Monrovia ahead of Liberia's presidential run-off.

Fiber Optic Cable Emerges from the Sea in Liberia

November 10, 2011

Getting online is difficult in Liberia. Connections are slow, and internet access can be very expensive. But that may be starting to change. Last week, a fiber optic cable arrived in Liberia. Bonnie Allen reports from Monrovia.

Conflict & Justice

US Policy Sparks Anti-Gay Attacks in Liberia

February 28, 2012

In December, the Obama administration issued a policy aimed at promoting gay rights as human rights around the world. But in Liberia the policy may be having the opposing effect.

Conflict & Justice

Reporter Threatened Over Female Circumcision Story in Liberia