Ministers fired in Liberia for defying presidential order to return during Ebola outbreak
Liberia’s president has fired all Cabinet ministers and other top officials who defied her order to return to the country as it struggles with an unprecedented Ebola outbreak.
A statement from Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s office did not say how many officials or which ones had been fired. The order to return and remain in Liberia came a few weeks ago as part of a state of emergency.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 1,400 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. Liberia has been hardest hit and has the most severe measures, including sealing off an entire neighbourhood of the capital.
The World Health Organisation says 240 health care workers have been infected with Ebola, half of whom died.
