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UN slashes World Food Progamme due to lack of funds
Updated On: 30 July, 2023 08:14 AM IST | United nations | Agencies
Carl Skau said WFP’s operating requirement is USD 20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between USD 10 billion and USD 14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years
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Ukrainians gather as food relief from United Nations comes in on Saturday. Pic/Getty Images
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Programme, told a news conference that at least 38 of the 86 countries where WFP operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon, including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and West Africa. He said WFP’s operating requirement is $20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between $10 billion and $14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years.
“We’re still aiming at that, but we have only so far this year gotten to about half of that, around $5 billion,” Skau said. He said humanitarian needs were “going through the roof” in 2021 and 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its global implications.
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