Rehabilitation of basic services still needed - USAID

Restoration of basic services, destroyed during a nine-year civil war, would constitute a magnet home for Liberia’s remaining refugees, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) said in its latest situation report of 30 September. In the report ranging from political affairs to the food situation in the country, USAID noted that most of the country’s infrastructure was destroyed and that the conventional economy had virtually ceased to function. Supplies of potable water and electricity, food, shelter and health care are insufficient and a climate of insecurity hangs over the country. Yet, USAID said, with three years of relative peace, conditions in Liberia no longer required emergency funding as they did at the height of the civil crisis.