News Liberia » Grand Gedeh » Culture: The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier
Off in the woods beyond the ekki trees, a sharp crack cuts through the buzzing of insects. “It’s a tree falling,” says George Bowey, a baby-faced community eco-guard who works here in the proposed Kwa ...
News Liberia » Grand Gedeh » Culture: Liberia: Grand Gedeh Still Under Occupation
Monrovia — -Bai Gbala says; claims victimization of Krahns Arguments about the 14-year Liberian civil war can become irritatingly cyclical - especially when the question is the causes of the war, the ...
News Liberia » Grand Gedeh » Culture: A cacao rush drives ‘alarming’ deforestation in Liberia
Satellite data and reports from the ground show how a rapid expansion of smallholder cacao farming in southeastern Liberia is causing “alarming” deforestation. Large numbers of migrant workers from ...
News Liberia » Grand Gedeh » Culture: Cacao rush fuels conflict and deforestation in southeastern Liberia
Soaring cacao prices over the last three years are fueling deforestation and conflict in Grand Gedeh county of Liberia, in West Africa, Mongabay staff writer Ashoka Mukpo reported. Satellite imagery ...
News Liberia » Grand Gedeh » Culture: Liberia Engulfed By a Culture of Self-Entitlement and Privilege - A Direct Threat to the Rule of Law
Liberia is being weakened by a dangerous syndrome: self-entitlement and privilege. This mindset has become an impediment to the enforcement of our laws.A class of citizens now claims to be privileged, ...
News Liberia » Grand Gedeh » Culture: UNHCR opens new camp for Ivorian refugees in eastern Liberia
GRAND GEDEH COUNTY, Liberia, September 2 (UNHCR) - UNHCR has opened a sixth camp for up to 27,000 refugees from Côte d'Ivoire who have been living with host communities in eastern Liberia since ...
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