Up to a million face hunger

Border closures, quarantines and crop losses in West African nations battling the Ebola virus could lead to as many as one million people going hungry, UN food agencies said. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program said the disease and the resulting restrictions had “caused a significant shock to the food and agriculture sectors in the affected countries.” Half a million people are currently in severe danger of going hungry, but this could “top one million by March 2015 unless access to food is drastically improved and measures are put in place to safeguard crop and livestock production.”

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