World Food Programme boosts operations to Ebola-hit W.Africa

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<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/world-food-programme-boosts-operations-ebola-hit-w-194937911.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8cSIgjd8VtrCUQtMqDO5NQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8ceaca56acda5bcb7d6eb29b167d9b99d91ff53e.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A medical worker wears protective clothing at an Ebola treatment facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 15, 2014" align="left" title="A medical worker wears protective clothing at an Ebola treatment facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 15, 2014" border="0" /></a>The World Food Programme is planning to boost its emergency aid in the west of Africa, saying the region faces a &quot;tsunami&quot; of need caused by the Ebola outbreak. This is like a tsunami that is already at its peak,&quot; said Denise Brown, the WFP's regional director for west Africa. Speaking in Dakar after returning from Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the countries most seriously affected by the outbreak -- she said there was a &quot;need to scale up&quot; to ensure that air access, materials, body bags, and food were reaching those most in need. She said the WFP has &quot;never responded in this scale to this kind of crisis&quot; before, with the added complication that many areas -- such as the vast West Point slum in Liberia's capital Monrovia -- are quarantined, cutting off access to food.</p><br clear="all"/>

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