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Monrovia, Liberia – 15 June 2025
1. Wide of Monrovia
2. Various of downtown Monrovia
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Monrovia, Liberia – 11 June 2025
3. Street signs in Monrovia
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Monrovia, Liberia – 15 June 2025
4. Mid of Liberian flag
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dehpue Y. Zuo, Liberia’s Deputy Finance Minister:
“There should have been a transition. We know the government, the United States has its own right to make the decision, but at the same time, under our diplomacy and multilateralism, it’s sometimes good to look and have some conversation.”
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Gaytayeah, Bong County, Liberia – 13 June 2025
6. Wide of road in village
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Sarworlor, Bong County, Liberia – 14 June 2025
7. Farmer, Roseline Phay, with her daughter Pauline exiting home
8. SOUNDBITE (Pidgin English) Roseline Phay, farmer:
“I am a farmer. I have this little child on my back and the other child in my stomach, suffering. My parents don’t have money. They do farm work. If we don’t work hard, we won’t survive. We are begging for medicine. If they bring it to Palala or Fhokoleh, even if it can’t come to the community, I will walk to Palala or Fhokoleh. If there’s no medicine, I go ask (the community health worker). She also says there’s no medicine.”
9. Various of Phay and Pauline
10. SOUNDBITE (Pidgin English) Roseline Phay, farmer:
“I used to go get healthcare at Palala (clinic), I used to go to get healthcare at Fhokoleh (clinic) and all the places. But the thing that made Pauline get sick was that I weaned her, because there was no family planning for me to take and protect myself. This is what made her get malnourished in my hand.”
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Palala, Liberia – 13 June 2025
11. Various of Irene A. Kerkulah, Palala Clinic Manager, at clinic
12. Various of medicine storage clinic with part empty shelves
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Irene A. Kerkulah, Palala Clinic Manager:
“So we don’t have, like, the Jadelle, that is the implant, the depo (Depo-Provera), the Sayana Press, Microgynon, and the Microlut, including male condoms.”
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Gbarnga, Liberia – 13 June 2025
14. Morris Wamah, Director of the Liberian Initiative for Developmental Services (LIDS), walking outside his office
15. Various of Wamah looking and pointing at board
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Morris Wamah, Director of the Liberian Initiative for Developmental Services:
“I can just imagine, if the way USAID pulled out, if WHO pulls out and maybe the World Bank too pulls out, Liberia is going to collapse.”
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Sarworlor, Bong County, Liberia – 14 June 2025
17. Wide of community meeting room in Sarworlor
18. Various of Phay and Pauline
STORYLINE:
In downtown Monrovia, signs of Liberia’s ties to the U.S. can be seen everywhere.
The capital is named after former U.S. president James Monroe, and green American-style street signs and yellow school buses dot the landscape. Liberia’s flag, at first glance, might be mistaken for the star spangled banner.
The ties between the two countries are stronger than most know. Liberia itself was established in the early 1800s with the aim of relocating freed slaves and free-born Black people from the United States.
Despite this, the country is one of many around the world that is now facing a future without USAID.
Support from the U.S. made up almost 2.6% of the gross national income, the highest percentage anywhere in the world, according to the Center for Global Development.
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