“Our hands are tied”: Liberia grapples with heaps of city waste
Monrovia, LiberiaReuters As the sun set over Liberia’s vast West Point slum, youth leader Archie Gbezay shook his head as children meandered around dense piles of trash, playing catch with jars of old hair product plucked from polluted puddles of water. Gbezay, 34, has seen his neighbours in corrugated iron shacks grapple with […]
Liberia kicks off bicentennial celebrating arrival of Black Americans
Monrovia, LiberiaReuters President George Weah on Monday called on Liberians to embrace unity and reconciliation as he launched year-long celebrations of the bicentennial of the arrival of the first free Black Americans in 1822. The former slaves arrived in Providence Island, now the capital Monrovia, in 1822, as part of a mission by the American […]
Stampede at Liberia church gathering kills 29
Monrovia, LiberiaAP At least 29 people in Liberia, including 11 children and a pregnant woman, have died in a stampede of worshippers at a Christian event in a densely populated area of the capital, Monrovia, officials said Thursday. The stampede erupted when a gang of thugs armed with knives attacked some of the hundreds attending […]
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LIBERIA: AS HIGH SEAS THREATEN SLUM, RESIDENTS AWAIT PROMISED HOMES
SALLY HAYDEN, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
EBOLA: SURVIVORS REMEMBER EPIDEMIC AS SAMARITAN’S PURSE RELEASE DOCUMENTARY
Samaritan’s Purse doctor Kent Brantly made headlines around the world when he became the first American diagnosed with Ebola. EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER reports on a new documentary which tells his story against the backdrop of the deadly health crisis in West Africa…