Due to a lack of money, the WFP has to stop its programme to avoid hunger in Yemen.
Due to a lack of money, the WFP has to stop its programme to avoid hunger in Yemen.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that they can no longer work to avoid hunger in Yemen because they don't have enough money and supplies are still being cut off. In a report, the UN Food Aid Division said that the programme will end in August. This will hurt many people in the war-torn Arab country who are malnourished. "The severe lack of funding and the ongoing disruption of supplies will force us to stop all efforts to prevent malnutrition in Yemen in August of next year. This will affect the 2.4 million malnourished people in the country, who are among the most vulnerable," it said.
The UN agency also said that it plans to use the few funds it has to treat the most serious cases of malnutrition, which are more dangerous than mild malnutrition, in order to improve the dire situation in Yemen. Due to a serious lack of money, the WFP had to switch more than 900,000 people from cash transfers to food gifts in kind, a report said. The UN agency made it clear that, despite the bad situation, it thinks this step is important to keep the programme going and to keep helping those who need it the most. A lot of money has been taken away from the WFP's six-month plan, which runs from August 2023 to January 2024. Only $280 million ($28%) of the $1.05 billion goal was met. Notably, in June, Australia, the European Union, Norway, the United States, and the Yemen Humanitarian Fund all agreed to give US$139 million. The WFP may not be able to help Yemeni people who are malnourished because the important plan is not getting enough money. This makes me very worried about the health of millions of hungry people in the Arab country in trouble.
In March 2015, Saudi Arabia started a harsh war of aggression against Yemen. It got help from some of its regional friends, like the United Arab Emirates, and got a lot of modern weapons from the United States and western Europe. Western countries gave Riyadh more political and military help as it tried and failed to return power in Yemen to the government that it had put in place. Former Yemeni Prime Minister Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi quit his job in late 2014 and then ran away to Riyadh because of a political dispute with the Ansarullah. When Yemen didn't have a working government, the movement ran the country. Also, the war killed tens of thousands of Yemenis and made the whole country the site of the worst humanitarian disaster in the world.
