Ban Ki-Moon,Secretary General of UN.
The United Nations is to fly in food aid for up to a million
people affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
According to the World Food Programme, an arm of the UN, the
agency is bringing in its own aircraft to make sure food gets through to
quarantined areas in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The organisation said it would come to the aid of these
worst Ebola-hit countries due to the problem of food crisis there.
The WFP Spokesperson, Fabienne Pompey, said, “The
restrictions on movement in the most affected areas threatens food security.
Commerce is affected; people cannot get to their fields; and prices rise at the
markets; so the poorest have trouble feeding themselves.”
As a result of the Ebola outbreak, the WFP said it had
already started feeding several thousand people in the worst affected areas,
including the families of victims who have been quarantined, orphans, old
people and hunters hit by the ban on the sale of bush meat.
With several commercial carriers suspending flights to the
region because of the epidemic, she said the agency would start a new
humanitarian service on Saturday (today) with an aircraft based in Conakry,
Guinea which would link the capitals of the three countries.
She said two helicopters would also be brought in to deliver
aid to the most isolated areas.
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