DAKAR (Reuters) - The World Food Programme needs to raise $70 million (42.16 million pounds) 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-stricken nations but needed to rapidly scale that up as the worst ever epidemic of the virus advanced.