Liberia: Civil servant wage row hampers rural recovery

Nurses and doctors are refusing to return to work in the Liberian countryside because their salaries are too small and often late and the transitional government's promise to pay 18-months of salary arrears has failed to materialise. "The government cannot force us to go into the interior and work, because in the end, we will have nothing to live on," Klomah Seblee, president of the National Health Workers Association told IRIN. "We have families whose needs we have to meet."