Stories: Liberia
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IRP Gatekeepers’ Fact-Finding Trip to Liberia
The 24th and current President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf photo by: Jonathan Ernst, 2001 IRP Fellow November 6-18, 2010 The International ...
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Liberia’s President Optimistic About Her Nation’s Future
Listen now. She's known as the "Iron Lady." And with her direct gaze and no-nonsense demeanor, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has commanded respect from both friend and foe over the years, ...
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Liberia: War-Weary, With Echoes of Old Dixie
I’m zipping around Liberia in a turbo-charged tour of the West African country, ricocheting from public hospital to presidential digs to rubber plantation to rape clinic, taking ...
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Rape Counseling for an Entire Nation
Photo: Teresa Wiltz We're in the upper edges of Liberia, neighboring the border of Guinea, enjoying an alfresco dinner with the crew from the local radio station, swatting at ...
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Post-Civil War Liberia at a Crossroads
The public-service billboards along Liberia's roadways only begin to hint at the magnitude of challenges facing a nation trying to right itself after 14 years of civil war that ...
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Toni Tours Liberia
Toni Randolph took these pictures on a grant from the International Reporting Project. For more pictures and updates, follow her on Facebook and Twitter. ...
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Rape as a Weapon: Seema Mathur Reports on Sexual Violence in Liberia
Seema Mathur reported from Liberia on a grant by the International Reporting Project (IRP). ...
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A Lifetime of Violence: Reflecting on Liberia’s Bloody Wars
IRP Fellow Seema Mathur tells a chilling tale of a former Liberian warlord, "General Butt Naked," who has found refuge in his religious conversion. Seema Mathur reported from ...
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Feminism’s Vital Role in Rebuilding Liberia
If you've seen the award-winning 2008 documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, then this will be a familiar story: How a group of Liberian women—Muslims and Christians, young and ...
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Liberia’s President: “The Next Election Will Be a Defining Event”
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Here, she speaks about the upcoming ...
