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

Liberia: Grandmother's Rape Case Shows a Paralyzed Justice System Where Just Two Convictions Have Been Won in Six Years and Rapists Walk Free

Liberia, July 28 -- The first time they came, they brought L$18,000 (US$100). The second time the family brought a lapa, a traditional cloth. When the family, whose 24-year-old son had been accused b... Read More

Liberia: As Vaccine Aid Is Cut, a Remote Measles Outbreak Shows What's at Risk

Liberia, June 25 -- The measles came to this town in January. Nobody announced it. Nobody warned families here. It moved quietly from home to home, the way measles does - through the air, between chi... Read More