MONROVIA, Liberia – Hundreds of residents of a Liberian slum lined up to receive rice and water from government officials Today in their neighbourhood, which was sealed off from the rest of the capital in an attempt to halt the spread of Ebola.
Security forces erected barbed-wire wrapped barricades on Wednesday to cut off West Point. Food prices inside the impoverished peninsula began to rise almost immediately. Residents clashed with police and soldiers hours after their neighborhood was sealed off, furious that they were being blamed and cut off from markets and jobs. But the situation is a now calm.
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