Friday 10 October 2014

United Nations $1 billion Ebola appeal severely underfunded: U.N. officials

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson addresses the United Nations General Assembly during a special meeting for a briefing on the West Africa Ebola outbreak in New York By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A $1 billion United Nations appeal to fight Ebola has only been 25 percent funded and senior U.N. officials warned on Friday that no country was safe as the world faced a crisis with staggering potential. "It is the most extraordinary challenge that the world could possibly face. You sometimes see films about this sort of thing and you imagine how could such a thing happen. This is more extreme than any film I have ever seen," said Dr. David Nabarro, who is heading the U.N. response to the Ebola epidemic. ...




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