June 29, 2022
U.N. Will Cut Food Aid for Millions of Yemenis, Again
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) will drastically scale back its humanitarian aid to Yemen—where it provides emergency food assistance to more than 13 million people—citing funding shortfalls and soaring prices around the globe.
The WFP’s Yemen branch announced the decision on Sunday (June 26).
Stating that “critical funding gaps, global inflation and the knock-on effects of the war in Ukraine” have forced the agency to make significant cuts, which it said would have “devastating impact” on Yemen’s poorest.
“WFP touches the lives of more than half the people of Yemen with over 19 million transfers covering a variety of monthly activities.
13 million people, who are considered the most needy, receive emergency food assistance,” it said.
“We are now being driven to scale back that support for 5 million of those people to less than 50% of the daily requirement, and for the other 8 million to around 25% of the daily requirement.”
In addition to slashing food rations, the org said 4 million people would no longer have access to “resilience and livelihood activities,” as well as “school feeding and nutrition programs,” due to the cuts.
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