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 Liberians safe from gender-based violence. But in 2026 FrontPage Africa/New Narratives found a completely broken legal system in which victims had little chance of accessing justice. The head of the sexual and gender-based violence unit conceded just two perpetrators had been convicted in six years.

The outcome came as little surprise to a growing movement of people in the development sector. They have condemned an aid system designed largely in Western capitals and where the people who understand a problem best are rarely the people trusted to...