Eric Opa Duoe

A New Survey Warns Legislators: Liberians Overwhelmingly Want a War Crimes Court and They Won’t Vote for Lawmakers Who Oppose It

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Liberia: After Mob Attack, Red Cross Begins Rebuilding Destroyed Rivercess Village — But Fear, Hunger and Insecurity Persist

In Rural Liberia, Climate Change and Gold Mining Are Converging to Threaten Livelihoods

Liberia: Vigilante Mob Levels River Cess Village; Authorities Slow to Respond

Liberia: As Climate Change Drives More Farmers Into the Forests, Ambitious Boakai Forestry Sector Reform Is Yet to Help Local Communities

Liberia: Flood Victims Angry as Disaster Agency Aid Vanishes and No Help Arrives Six Months After Floods

ITI, River Cess – The horizon is gray and murky here and in neighboring Glanyah, two communities battered by the wrath of…

Witnesses Accuse Lurd Rebel of Dozens of Murders, Torture, Rape and Child Soldiers in Sentencing Hearing in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, USA – In a gripping day of testimony in a federal courtroom here, victims of Liberia’s brutal civil war recalled numerous…

Liberia: Victims to Testify in US Sentencing Hearing as Lurd Rebel Faces 40 Years Prison

PHILADELPHIA, USA – Laye Sekou Camara, a former high-ranking general with Liberian rebel group Lurd who pled guilty last week to four…

Liberia: Government Declares Collapsed Cestos River Bridge “Beyond Repair” as Economic Shock Ripples Across South East 

ITI, River Cess – Last month’s Cestos River Bridge collapse here in the south of River Cess county, has caused chaos across…

Liberia: Sun Finally Shines But Devastated River Cess Communities Still Trapped By Flood Waters

GLANYAH, River Cess – A week of relentless rainfall has plunged the traditional town of Glanyah into chaos, as rising waters swallowed…