Red Cross slams crisis in Liberia

The International Red Cross on Friday expressed disgust at the disastrous humanitarian situation in Liberia, saying it had rarely seen an African country that had been as neglected as the war-ravaged west African state.

"We think that the local population, the Liberians, have been neglected to a point rarely seen even in Africa," Christoph Harnisch, senior delegate for Africa at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), told journalists.

"When we see the very fast deterioration of the food situation in Monrovia, the beginning of severe malnutrition with children in some centres of the capital, that food stocks at the port of Monrovia cannot be distributed during days and days because there are not the conditions to do so, then we feel a sentiment of revolt," Harnisch added.

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