Liberia: We Decry Violence

7 July 2014
The NEWS (Monrovia)
editorial

Calm Has Been restored to the mining city of Yekepa in Nimba County, north of Liberia, where community members were in engaged in a violent armed protest that left several persons injured and private property destroyed.

About Four Police officers reportedly sustained injuries in the violence while public roads and bridges were demolished. There were reports that community members used single barriers guns to fire at armed ERU officers. However, there has been no report whether or not ERU officers returned fire.

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