Dakar - The World Food
Programme needs to raise $70
million to feed 1.3 million
people at risk from shortages
in Ebola-quarantined areas in
West Africa, with the agency's resources already stretched by
several major humanitarian
crises, its regional director
said. WFP's West Africa Director
Denise Brown said the
organisation was currently
providing food for around
150,000 people in Ebola-
striken nations but needed to rapidly scale that up as the
worst ever epidemic of the
virus advanced. Senegal on Friday became the
fifth country to confirm it had
been touched by the outbreak
that has infected more than
3,000 people - killing some
1,550 of them - since it was detected in March. The World
Health Organization (WHO)
said on Thursday the outbreak
could infect a total of 20,000
people before it ends. Rest of the story here.m.news24.com/nigeria/World/News/WFP-says-it-needs-70-mln-to-feed-13-mln-people-in-Ebola-quarantine-20140830-2