Coastal Erosion in West Africa
Communities around the world are experiencing coastal erosion. On the one hand, this is a natural phenomenon: storms slam into coasts, blow sand from the beach out to sea and cause catastrophic damages to the environment and infrastructure; even everyday tides crashing continuously into rocky shores, break rock apart and wear cliffs down with a […]
Orphans in Liberia
Liberia In many ways, Africa is a land of opportunity. One reason is the continent’s youthful population. In fact, more than 60% of Africans are under 25; more than 40% are under 15. But while it is home to the youngest population in the world, Africa is also home to a quarter of the world’s […]
Feeding Liberia
That the price of food has been steadily increasing all over the world in the last few years is a fact all of have been unhappily observing. But have you ever considered that the cost of livestock feed can drive prices further – and leave people hungrier? Food Insecurity Agriculture as a whole is a […]
An Introduction to Liberia
Did you know that freed slaves from the U.S. once founded a country in Africa? That country is Liberia, on the coast of West Africa. The establishment of five repatriate settlements began in 1822, and the settlers established the first Republic in Africa in 1847. What’s In A Name? Quite a lot, actually. Liberia itself […]