Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced he will leave today for the countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak "to show my solidarity with those affected and urge even greater global action" to fight the epidemic, which two United Nations food agencies said could push the number of people facing food insecurity to more than one million by next spring.
"The disease's impact is potentially devastating in the three countries already coping with chronic food insecurity," according to a press release issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
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