Liberia
The Liberian women who took on their traffickers and won
Liberia has been on and off the State Department's human trafficking watch list for years. In this desperately poor country, people accept jobs from agents to work as domestic servants in other countries. Usually, they are trapped, earning little money and subject to abuse. But several hundred Liberian women used social media to escape their traffickers in 2022.
How we make decisions about politics in the aftermath of conflict
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in overnight attack
Liberians hesitate to apply for permanent resident status in US over daunting process
'It’s hard to have hope when you haven't had time to breathe,’ says Liberian American activist on Chauvin verdict
Alfreda Daniels Juasemai, a community organizer and co-founder of Black Immigrant Collective in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, says the Chauvin verdict doesn't offer much hope.
Brooklyn Center mayor on Chauvin trial: Black people can no longer tolerate ‘a state of terror’
Mayor Mike Elliott talks to Marco Werman about how his childhood in Liberia prepared him for this leadership moment — as his city grapples with the killing of Daunte Wright, and braces for the verdict in the case of George Floyd's death.
Biden pick to lead US mission at UN will 'rebuild ties with our closest allies,' says former amb.
With over three decades in the US foreign service, Linda Thomas-Greenfield hopes to chart a new course for the US in the halls of the United Nations. Marco Werman speaks to her colleague, former Ambassador Johnnie Carson, about how the adversity that Thomas-Greenfield faced in her career has prepared her for this role.
‘It doesn’t feel very real': Liberian immigrants in US rejoice at pathway to citizenship
A pathway to green cards and US citizenship is within reach for an estimated 4,000 Liberians thanks to a provision buried within the behemoth $738 billion defense policy bill passed by the US Senate on Tuesday.
Legal status for thousands of Liberians in US hangs on court decision
Some 4,000 Liberians will lose their legal status due to the Trump administration’s termination of a program that granted them temporary reprieves from deportation. This week, they got their day in court.
This Liberian lawyer risked his life to save West Africa's last remaining rainforest from palm oil developers
When a palm oil development project tried to cut down the last major swath of tropical rainforest in Liberia, lawyer Alfred Brownell jumped into action — and almost lost his life.
Almost undocumented, Liberians in US get 11th hour reprieve
Up to 4,000 Liberians with Deferred Enforced Departure status were nearly rendered undocumented March 31, after US President Donald Trump declined to renew their status last year. But at the 11th hour, the White House reversed course. But there is still no permanent solution set for DED holders, many of whom have US-citizen family members.
Liberia was founded by people enslaved in the US. Advocates say the US should not end an immigration program that helps them.
A small immigration program for Liberians in the US will expire at the end of March. Minnesota economists and health care companies say their losing immigration status will have an outsized effect.
Liberia's Ellen Sirleaf: Women's icon with nerves of steel
Ellen Sirleaf, the first elected president in Liberia who has served two six-year terms, will preside over the country's first democratic transfer of power since 1944
Football celebrates Weah's win in Liberian presidential election
Despite numerous examples of the game's former stars entering politics, Weah is the first former player to succeed in being elected head of his country.