Ebola Leads to Food Shortages in West Africa

The Ebola health crisis is causing a food emergency in West Africa.  The international humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger USA warns the Ebola emergency has left a shortage of manpower for food production and a spike in food costs for the three main countries hit hardest by the Ebola outbreak—Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.  Development experts say over a million people in the region need food aid to mitigate shortages. “The Ebola crisis in West Africa has heavily...

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