Liberia to Hold Special Senatorial Election Amid Ebola Crisis

The Chairman of Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) says both houses of Liberia’s legislature have told his commission to hold next month’s special senatorial election as scheduled. Jerome Kokoya said he had written the legislature asking for a postponement of the October 9 election to December this year, saying his commission could not hold a free, fair, and credible election because of the ongoing deadly Ebola crisis. Liberia has been under a state of emergency since...

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