MONROVIA, Liberia -- Riot police and soldiers acting on their president's orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum Wednesday, trying to contain ...

Liberia, which has the highest death toll in West Africa from Ebola, deployed security forces on Wednesday to quarantine a slum in its capital, Monrovia. The orders from President Ellen Johnson ...

Ebola-ravaged countries are taking a more radical approach to containing the epidemic: Liberia and Sierra Leone have enlisted soldiers to block off sections of the country in a forceful effort to ...

The scramble to seal borders follows fears of the disease ... could be a major public health disaster. Meanwhile, one of Liberia's most high-profile doctors, Samuel Brisbane, has died of Ebola ...

Liberia has closed a border-crossing with Ivory Coast, but did not confirm a claim by Abidjan that gunmen, who killed seven United Nations peacekeepers along with eight civilians and a soldier ...