
Mory Soumaoro fixes a tyre at his workshop in Montserrado County, on March 7, 2026. Rubber is among Liberia's main cash crops, but experts say the poor west African nation is shortchanged when tyres and other rubber goods are only manufactured abroad. The majority of Liberians drive on cheap, used tyres, imported from places like Europe, America and China. Repairing and reselling the poor-quality tyres has become a profitable business, and makeshift shops are ubiquitous. (Photo by MATTHEW JACOBS / AFP via Getty Images)




