BO WATERSIDE, Liberia — Fatu Momolu, a middle-age vendor of cold drinks, danced gleefully on Sunday back and forth across the border, an imaginary line that for the last seven months had turned all too real, severing Liberia from Sierra Leone and Ms. Momolu from much of her family.
She threw her head and hands skyward as she raced from one end of the 100-yard bridge over the Mano River to the other and then back again, taking the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, at her word that the country would lift its midnight curfew and reopen its borders.
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A version of this article appears in print on February 23, 2015, on page A4 of the New York edition with the headline: Liberia Lifts Its Curfew, But Border Stays Sealed . Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe
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