Friday, January 23, 2015

Liberia's schools reopen amid warnings that hard work on Ebola is far from done

Decline in Ebola cases prompts return to classrooms but Liberian government echoes UN call for international community to make good on funding pledges

It would be a “colossal mistake” for the world to abandon the west African countries worst-affected by the Ebola epidemic in the premature belief that the disease has been beaten into retreat, the Liberian government has warned.

Speaking as the World Health Organisation (WHO) released figures showing a continuing fall in cases in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Liberia’s information minister, Lewis Brown, asked the international community to honour its financial commitments to the region and help it rebuild its shattered health systems.

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