U.S. to train Liberian armed forces to help tackle Ebola crisis


  • World
  • Saturday, 13 Sep 2014

MONROVIA/FREETOWN (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it would train Liberia's security forces to assist in isolation operations to tackle an Ebola epidemic ravaging the West African nation, after a boy was killed when soldiers opened fire on a protest last month.

The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 2,400 people in West Africa - more than half of them in Liberia. Liberian officials have called the outbreak the greatest threat to national stability since a 1989-2003 civil war.

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