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This edition of our Community Report features Roberts Port, a town in western Liberia, about 10 miles from the Sierra Leone border. This settlement is named after Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia. The town lies on Cape…
World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honor refugees around the globe. It is observed annually on June 20 and celebrates the strength and courage of people forced to flee their home country to…
For our Community Report, we head to Edina, a city in Grand Bassa County, 3.5 miles from Capital City Buchanan in Liberia. Founded in 1839, Edina is listed as one of the original settlements by the American Colonization Society and…
This edition of Community Report takes us to the famous Kunta Kinteh Island in the Gambia. The old Fort of James Island (renamed Kunta Kinteh Island in Gambia) is located about 30 km upstream on the river and is home…
In this edition of Community Report, we head to Johnson’s Farm Community in Western Liberia Bomi County, a rural settlement established in the 1980s. As you will hear in this report, the settlement received electricity supply for the first time…
In this edition of our community report, we head to Liberia, where we spotlight the Krahn ethnic-speaking group in Grand Gedeh County, located in the southeastern region of the country. Jewrel Nimely, a youth leader from the region, tells us…
In this edition of Community report, we will be looking at Providence Island – an island that tells an important chapter in the history of the United States and its relations with Africa and people of African descent. In 1822,…
This edition of the community report segment features Big Joe Town, a rural settlement on a huge portion of farmland on the outskirts of Buchanan, Grand Bassa’s capital in Liberia. Like many rural settlements in Liberia, land conflict issues are…
Our community report today takes us to Kumbwada Village, a Community in Niger State, North Central Nigeria, which is traditionally a male-dominated society only ruled by women. A predominantly Gbagyi-speaking people, the people of Kumbwada, have been ruled by women…
The 200-year celebration of Janjanbureh, an island in the Central River of the Gambia marked a historic milestone in the town’s vibrant history. After years of under-development, Janjanbureh is re-inventing itself as an ecotourism hub for the Central and Upper…
This edition of the community report puts a spotlight on the intriguing culture of the ancient city of Bida in North Central Nigeria. Bida is the second largest city in Niger State, located southwest of Minna, the capital of Niger…
COMMUNITY REPORT – Authorities in The Gambia begin demolition of illegal structures The Gambia Government began a nationwide demolition exercise in October this year. The exercise witnessed the demolition of permanent and temporal structures forcing dozens of people to look…
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