Liberia: UNDP Empowers Over 70 Former Dry Meat Sellers

The plight of former bush meat sellers in the country may have been overlooked as Liberians weaned themselves off the delectable dried monkey, deer and other bush meat now known to be carriers of the deadly Ebola virus disease. These sellers have lost a lucrative niche of the food market along with the income it provided to them and their families.

It begs the questions of whether bush meat will ever return to the diets of the populations of the Ebola effected West African countries and whether these sellers of this now banned ingredient will be back in their line of business.

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