- Editors from large outlets pass on environmental stories in Liberia all the time, making it harder to hold the powerful accountable for misconduct.
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I’ve been sitting on a bench inside the small waiting room at the Liberia Business Registry just off the main drag in downtown Monrovia when the phrase pops into my head: “Monkey still working, let baboon wait small.” Famously used as the official slogan of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s re-election campaign in 2011, the flowery…
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