MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia’s halting efforts (click here) to contain the Ebola outbreak spreading across parts of West Africa quickly turned violent on Wednesday when angry young men hurled rocks and stormed barbed-wire barricades, trying to break out of a neighborhood here that had been cordoned off by the government.
Soldiers repelled the surging crowd with live rounds, driving hundreds of young men back into the neighborhood, a slum of tens of thousands in Monrovia known as West Point....
Liberia has to educate the country's people about the disease and how to prevent it, either through social media or by government ministers working with the public. The violence was a direct reaction to the lack of information available to the Liberian people.
Soldiers repelled the surging crowd with live rounds, driving hundreds of young men back into the neighborhood, a slum of tens of thousands in Monrovia known as West Point....
Liberia has to educate the country's people about the disease and how to prevent it, either through social media or by government ministers working with the public. The violence was a direct reaction to the lack of information available to the Liberian people.
