Vigilante Mob Levels River Cess Village; Authorities Slow to Respond

In River Cess County, more than 150 women and children are sleeping outdoors after a mob burned homes and food stores in Bethel Town in the latest example of vigilante violence across the country.
Six men including the town chief have finally been taken into custody after police took 10 days to arrive in the town.
The county representative claimed in a Facebook post that he had visited the town but his spokesman admitted he had not.
In this collaboration with OkayFM Eric Opa Doue reports that local citizens are begging for help.

This story was a collaboration with New Narratives as part of the “Investigating Liberia” project. Funding was provided by the Swedish embassy in Liberia. The funder has no say in the story’s content.