Ebola-hit Liberia staring into abyss - Expert

The Director of the anti-Ebola operations in Liberia for the International Medical Corps (IMC), Sean Casey, has warned that Liberia with its collapsed health service, sick and poorly equipped security forces and broken economy, risks finding itself on the brink of complete societal breakdown.

The already impoverished country was on the slow road to recovery after a 14 year ruinous civil war ended in 2003 and claimed 250 thousand people.

But Information Minister Lewis Brown recently warned that the epidemic, which has left more than one thousand 800 dead so far this year, risks plunging Liberians back into conflict.

Many observers of the country's latest devastating crisis, while stopping short of talk of war, worry about the heightened risk of unrest in a country stalked by death.

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