WFP intends to stop providing food, cash assistance in Yemen

ROME, Aug. 29 (YPA) – The World Food Programme sated that it intends to stop providing food and cash assistance in Yemen, starting at the end of next September, due to a severe lack of funding.

“We are facing a critical situation due to the lack of sufficient funding to ensure the smooth continuity of our operations, starting from the end of September 2023,” the WFP affirmed in its post on “X” platform on Monday. “We will have to cut cash and food aid.”

The program warned that this measure would seriously harm millions of needy people who depend on this aid for their livelihoods, including millions of children who “already face malnutrition.”

It called for urgent global action to confront this crisis before the situation in Yemen turns into a disaster for the world.

The WFP stated, in its latest report on the situation of food security in Yemen, that its plan for the next six months in Yemen has so far only been funded by only 20 percent of the total $1.17 billion required for the coming period.

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