US EditionU.N. food agency to suspend food aid for 750,000 people in Somalia next month
Funding shortfalls and aid cuts reduce emergency food assistance from 1.1 million to 350,000, with 4.6 million Somalis facing hunger, the World Food Program said.
- On Friday, the United Nations World Food Programme announced cuts to food assistance in Somalia, saying aid will drop from 1.1 million in August to 350,000 in November.
- Amid worsening climate impacts and fighting, climate change combined with conflict and insecurity have destabilised Somalia this year, while cuts to U.S. foreign aid have worsened humanitarian response.
- This year, U.N. figures show 4.6 million people face crisis-level hunger, 1.8 million children face acute malnutrition, and 421,000 suffer severe malnutrition with about 180,000 receiving assistance.
- WFP warns it will support less than 1 in every 10 people in need of food assistance, with Ross Smith saying `We are seeing a dangerous rise in emergency levels of hunger, and our ability to respond is shrinking by the day.'
- WFP says it needs US$98 million to sustain life-saving operations for 800,000 people through the lean season until March 2026 as monthly coverage has halved compared to one year ago.
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U.N. food agency to suspend food aid for 750,000 people in Somalia
The U.N. food agency announced on Friday that it is cutting food assistance for hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia, where millions are facing the devastating effects of climate change and acute levels of hunger.
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U.N. food agency to suspend food aid for 750,000 people in Somalia next month
The U.N. food agency has announced cuts to food assistance for hundreds of thousands in Somalia, where millions face the devastating effects of climate change and severe hunger.
WFP warns of ‘catastophic conditions’ in Somalia as funding dwindles
NAIROBI: Millions of people in Somalia face worsening hunger as major cuts to donor aid leave the World Food Programme with a critical funding shortfall, the UN agency warned Friday. The Horn of Africa nation is among the most vulnerable to climate change, according to the United Nations, and in the last five years has experienced both the worst drought in four decades and
Somalia: Millions in Somalia At Risk of Worsening Hunger As WFP Faces Critical Funding Shortfall
Mogadishu, Somalia -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns today that millions in Somalia are at risk of worsening hunger and malnutrition as critical funding shortfalls have forced the agency to reduce the number of people it supports with lifesaving emergency food assistance in Somalia by over two-thirds. In November, WFP will have to reduce the number of people who receive emergency food assistance to just 350,000 people, down …
Fewer than one in 10 Somalis to receive life-saving aid in November, warns WFP
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that millions in Somalia are at risk of worsening hunger and malnutrition as critical funding shortfalls force the agency to cut back on life-saving emergency food assistance.
The number of people receiving emergency food aid in the country will be reduced from 1.1 million to 350,000
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