Liberia: Called a 'Dragon': A Mother's Struggle Exposes Failure to Provide Help for People with Disabilities

Liberia, Oct. 16 -- Summary: * A family in Monrovia was forced from their home because the landlord believed her five-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy, a disability caused by damage to the devel... Read More

Liberia: Global Study Shows Most African Workers 'Struggling'; the Cost is Paid by Teachers, Healthcare Workers Who Hold the Economy Together

Liberia, Oct. 15 -- Summary: By Tetee Gebro and Joyclyn Wea, health and gender correspondents with New Narratives BENSONVILLE, Montserrado County - Before sunrise, Elaine Duowai prepares lesson note... Read More

Liberia: As Hypertension and Obesity Rise, Government Urges Citizens to Get Moving

Liberia, Oct. 14 -- Summary By Tetee Gebro, gender and health correspondent with New Narratives CATHOLIC JUNCTION, Monrovia - Rain was falling Saturday morning when Nadia S. Jolo joined a group of p... Read More

Liberia: A Coalition of African Civil Society Groups Demands Control of Development Money. But Can They Afford to Say No to Donors?

Liberia, Sept. 18 -- Summary By Tetee Gebro, gender and health correspondent with New Narratives ACCRA, Ghana - When a donor offered money to an organization working in Kenya, it came with an opport... Read More

Donors built Africa's aid system, now African civil society wants to rebuild it

Nigeria, Sept. 15 -- When a donor offered money to an organization working in Kenya, it came with an opportunity to expand its work into more communities. For a small organization that needed funding,... Read More

African Civil Society Leaders Say the Global Aid System Is Broken; 200 Gather in Accra This Week to Create a New Africa-Led Model

Liberia, Aug. 31 -- Summary: By Tetee Gebro, gender and health correspondent with New NarrativesIn the four years to 2023 the European Union spent $16 million to boost the systems that would keep Lib... Read More

Liberia: A Woman Is Dead. The Man Who Operated on Her Pretended to Be a Surgeon: The Case That Shows Authorities Are Doing Nothing to Protect Liberians From Fake Doctors

Liberia, Aug. 17 -- Summary By Tetee Gebro, health and gender correspondent with New Narratives CALDWELL, Monrovia - Saybah Kollie collapsed on a Sunday morning in early April, two days after her so... Read More