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By: Rufus S. Berry II, MBA
The sexual abuse of our innocent daughters at the hands of McIntosh Johnson, is a classic example of the consequences of Katie Meyler and both the Ministries of Education and Gender/Child Protection under the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Administration not intervening early on, when underaged girls were allegedly raped and infected with HIV. Bystanders who looked away, when they knew about the repeated incidents of child molestation and rape, are not innocent.
It is deplorable and absolutely wicked that any adult would molest a child. It is equally deplorable if both the Ministries of Education and Gender and Children Protection under the Sirleaf government knew that this was occurring and did nothing about it. Shame on all of us, including former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, if we personally or officially knew of these unspeakable crimes and remained silent. Read more...
Revelations about systematic rape of girls in an NGO-run school in Liberia reveal just how wrong charity work can go.
Released last week to howls of outrage, ProPublica's Unprotected is a chilling expose about a rotten and unaccountable international charity industry. In particular, it peels away the shroud of secrecy around an American NGO, More Than Me (MTM), whose white American cofounder gallivanted around the globe for years raising millions of dollars for an academy she founded in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, while her Liberian partner repeatedly raped young female recruits. Read more...
On Sept. 7, 2013, on a long, straight avenue that runs across the bustling downtown of Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, street hawkers peered at the spectacle. Guests sweltered on packed rows of plastic seats, while at the end of a red carpet, next to the U.S. ambassador, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf sat atop something like a throne.
One young American was at the center of it all.
She was a dervish of hugs, laughter, even tears. Her name was Katie Meyler. It was her 31st birthday and, she would later say, the best day of her life. The More Than Me Academy was opening. Read more...
Internally displaced English speakers from western Cameroon find themselves stranded in their own country, afraid to go home, as the violence continues... Read more...
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