Ebola-Hit Liberia Cancels Nationwide Election: Government

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Red cross workers carry a person's body suspected of dying from ebola in Liberia. (Agence France Presse)
Monrovia: Ebola-hit Liberia has suspended its nationwide Senate polls after the election commission admitted it would not be able to stage the ballot safely, according to a government statement.

Almost three million voters had been due in polling stations on Tuesday but organisers said there was no way a "mass movement, deployment and gathering of people" could go ahead without further endangering lives.

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