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Liberia Is Having ‘The Worst Christmas Ever’

Liberia Is Having ‘The Worst Christmas Ever’

From Business Insider

The Ebola epidemic has cast a dark shadow over Christmas this year in Liberia, where small businesses are especially feeling the pinch.

“This is the worst Christmas we have ever seen,” said Isaac G. Chea, a trader. “Because of the Ebola crisis… people don’t want to come in the market, there where people gather; touching each other” for fear of contracting the disease.

Monrovia residents cannot remember a more morose Christmas period since the west African country’s back-to-back civil wars, which claimed some 250,000 lives between 1989 and 2003.

Written by Zoom Dosso and Orlind Cooper/Read more at Business Insider