Liberians Gather On The Streets To Celebrate The End Of Ebola

Recently Liberia announced their country was free from Ebola After 42days and no new case of the deadly virus.  In regard to that Liberians gathered in the streets of the capital on Monday to celebrate the end of the Ebola epidemic. President of Togo, African Union guests, Ghana and Nigeria also attended. We are so happy for them and hope Sierra Leone and Guinea will get to that stage too.

The festivities come after the World Health Organization declared over the weekend that Liberia was finally Ebola-free.

More than 4,700 people died during the Ebola crisis in Liberia, the country hardest hit by the outbreak.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf closed the celebrations by recommitting herself to helping the governments and people of Sierra Leone and Guinea to overcome the disease.
The effort to achieve that has already started. “We are going to intensify that effort because we know that until they are free, totally free, we are not free,” she said.

The president of Togo along with guests from the African Union, Ghana and Nigeria also attended the Liberian event.
According to the Washington post Liberia’s Chief Justice Francis Korkpor called the Ebola crisis “an unprovoked attack on our nation that posed a serious threat to the survival of our existence.”