date:Aug 18, 2014
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up emergency food deliveries to the West African region battling an Ebola outbreak and delivering supplies by truck, a WFP official said on Friday.
The death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has risen to 1,145, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Most deaths have been recorded in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, while four people have died in Nigeria.
Hunger is spreading in the region where roadblocks have cordoned off many ar