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The Ebola Crisis May Become a Food Crisis Rather than the disease itself, it appears that, in the areas that are quarantined, it’s food shortage that is causing immediate concern. “People are saying: ‘We’re not afraid of dying from Ebola, we’re starving,’” said Jean-Alexandre Scaglia, a representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Liberia. Such is the problem with the inability to plan aid drops on the ground, where those in need can detail exactly what they need and when; people panic and riot if they are not assured adequate access to food. Last week, a riot broke out in West Point—a shantytown of 70,000 people from Monrovia, Liberia’s capital—when the government’s quarantines were put into practice. People want to leave the barricades to feed their families. munchies.vice/articles/the-ebola-crisis-may-become-a-food-crisis/?utm-source=munchiestumblrus
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:39:27 +0000

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