Filmmaker Mads Brugger’s ‘The Ambassador’ and the Story of a Phony Diplomat

Mads Brugger’s film “The Ambassador” is about his adventure in the Central African Republic where he posed as a Liberian diplomat.

Podcast: The Kiira – Uganda’s Electric Car

Stories this week on Uganda’s electric car, Liberia’s new undersea fiber optic cable, and some Nigerians who are recycling plastic bottles into houses. Also, Syrian web monitoring and an app called Instant WILD.

Fiber Optic Cable Emerges from the Sea in Liberia

Getting online is difficult in Liberia. Connections are slow, and internet access can be very expensive. But that may be starting to change. Last week, a fiber optic cable arrived in Liberia. The cable literally emerged from the sea. As Bonnie Allen reports from Monrovia, it’s expected to eventually bring the country a decent high-speed internet connection.

My Conversation with the Iron Lady of Africa

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has had quite a year. In October she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Thursday she will likely be announced the winner of Liberia’s presidential runoff election [...]

Monrovia Protest Turns Deadly Ahead of Liberia’s Presidential Run-off

At least one person has died after shots were reportedly fired during an opposition protest in Monrovia ahead of Liberia’s presidential run-off.

Despite Nobel Prize, Sirleaf’s Re-Election Not Guaranteed

Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, but it’s no guarantee that she’ll win re-election on Tuesday.

Reaction From Liberia on Nobel Prize

Not everyone is happy in Liberia about Sirleaf winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Peace Prize Shared Between Three Women

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is split between three women – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and activists Tawakul Karman of Yemen and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – ‘Ma Ellen’ – and her Liberian Presidential Re-election Bid

Liberian incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is running for re-election. The women’s vote helped put her in office last time. But many Liberian women are turning their back on the president

Rebuilding of Liberia After War

Gbowee discusses her new memoir “Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex changed a Nation at War.”

Liberians Strained in Helping Ivorian Refugees

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The fighting has subsided in Ivory Coast, but Ivorians who fled across the border to Liberia still aren’t going home. As Bonnie Allen reports, it is creating a hardship for their Liberian hosts. Download MP3

Slideshow: Ivorian refugees in Liberia

Fate of Deportees in Liberia

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Immigration will be a major point of discussion for the new Congress. But treatment of deported immigrants, once they are deported, is often not debated. Correspondent Deepa Fernandes looks at how the African nation of Liberia has been treating, and often imprisoning, some people deported from the US. Download MP3

Ivorian Refugees Affecting Liberian Health Care

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More than 170,000 refugees have fled the violence in Ivory Coast for neighboring Liberia. Health care is already inadequate for rural Liberians. Dr. Raj Panjabi, a Liberian-born Harvard Medical School physician, co-founded a rural health care organization in Liberia called Tiyatien Health. He spoke with The World’s Marco Werman about how the Ivorian refugees are overwhelming the already fragile health care system in Liberia. Download MP3

Official website of Tiyatien Health

Liberia’s forgotten prisoners

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Thousands of people sit in Liberian jails for years, awaiting trial. Now there’s a program aimed at fast-tracking these cases and getting people out of pre-trial detention. Jess Engebreston sits in on one of the proceedings. Download MP3

Liberians shelter Ivory Coast refugees

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Correspondent Jess Engebretson reports from Liberia, where thousands of people from Ivory Coast have sought refuge from political violence. Download MP3

Slideshow: Home away from home for Ivorians