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The Independent
5 hours ago
- Health
- The Independent
Trump's cuts leave a million facing starvation in Nigeria – as food aid runs out
The World Food Programme (WFP) is set to run out of food in Nigeria this month following crippling aid cuts, with millions of people now at risk of starvation, The Independent has learnt. The revelation comes after a series of concerning updates from Nigeria since the Trump Administration terminated more than 80 per cent of aid contracts run by USAID, which until this year had been a major humanitarian provider in the country. In April, President Tinubu declared a state of emergency on food security in the country, while in June, a report from the WFP and UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) warned that 30.6m people in the country were now facing food crisis or acute food insecurity, and 5.4 million children were acutely malnourished, as a result of intensifying conflict, economic challenges and climate change impacts. Now, the WFP – the UN agency that is widely seen as the last line of defence against starvation – is saying that it no longer has the funds to continue its operations. 'We only have resources to go on until this month, and the way things are looking, people are going to starve,' says WFP Nigeria spokesperson Chi Lael. 'We do not have any contingency. We don't have any carry-over. We are using all the money we have, which takes us to July,' she adds. 'Our office is completely stunned right now.' Lael, who has worked for WFP since 2018, said that the current crisis is different to the 'peaks and troughs in funding cycles' that are typical in humanitarian organisations. 'There really is no plan for anyone to step in,' she said. Some 1.3 million people will receive food assistance this month from WFP, but from the start of August, that total is set to fall to zero. WFP's network of life-saving nutrition treatment clinics are also all set to close, starting with 150 clinics closing in July, which will lead to the immediate cessation of malnourishment treatment for 300,000 children. While a lifeline to many, WFP has already in recent months been able to only support a fraction of those in need of food support. A malnutrition analysis released earlier this year by the IPC, a UN-backed food insecurity classification system, found that from May 2024 to April 2025, only 20 per cent of malnourished children in the country were receiving necessary treatment, with malnourishment already contributing to 45 per cent of all deaths of children under five. According to Lael, WFP closing its operations in the country would result in people either staying put and risking starvation, leaving their homes and moving to other regions with likely no better prospects, or submitting to Boko Haram, the terrorist group that has been driving an armed insurgency in the country's North since 2009. 'All of these are horrible options,' she says. ll Before contracts were terminated, USAID provided just under 50 per cent of WFP Nigeria's funding – though Lael says that it is not only the fault of the US, with many other donor countries reducing their funding in recent years. Khatija Nxedlana, Nigeria country spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, concurs that aid cuts are not a new phenomenon. 'Over the last couple of years, we have seen less and less money coming in, and organisations have been reshaping and refocusing their priorities,' she says. But the immediate termination of programmes under Elon Musk's DOGE Programme – which included close to $200m of cuts in Nigeria – caused chaos at humanitarian agencies and prevented them from being able to continue prioritising resources. The news from Nigeria also comes as new research published in the Lancet this week found that US cuts to humanitarian aid under President Trump could lead to 14 million additional deaths by 2030, with children representing a third of those at risk. Away from the wealth and glamour of the coastal commercial centre Lagos, Nigeria's food crisis is centred on the country's Northern districts. A key driver of the crisis is the ever-more volatile rain patterns driven by the climate crisis. Weather reports from early June, for example, warn of below-average rainfall forecasts for certain central and northern food-growing areas of the country, which are set to result in crop production shortfalls. But even more devastating than drought in recent years has been the impact of flooding, which had devastating impacts in 2022, 2024, and now also in 2025, with at least 700 people believed to have died from flooding in the town of Mokwa in Niger State at the end of May. 'In 2022, everyone said: We have not seen rains like this in a decade. Then in 2024, they said: We have not had rains like this in 30 years. And this year, Niger State has seen its worst floods in 60 years,' says Lael. 'It's like the rainy season has just become the flooding season.' These floods wash away farmlands and infrastructure, leaving nothing in their place. 'And the problem now is that there's no recovery time,' adds Lael. 'A year is not enough time to rebuild entire communities and get everybody back onto their farms.' The volatile Lake Chad Basin Much of Nigeria's most climate-vulnerable population lives in the Borno, Yobe, and Gombo states in the country's North East, which in turn form part of the Lake Chad Basin, a fertile region spread over Niger, Cameroon and Chad, and which centres on the famous lake. The region has been effectively in a state of constant humanitarian crisis for more than a decade, with at least three million internally displaced people (IDPs) across the basin at the moment, according to figures cited by OCHA, the UN humanitarian agency. A poster child for environmental degradation for much of the Twentieth Century, Lake Chad lost 90 per cent of its surface area in the 1970s and 80s as a result of reduced rainfall and poor land management practices – though the water level has since stabilised, and an estimated three million people continue to live off the fish stocks and farmlands of the region. Flooding is now the key climatic risk of the region, after extreme droughts of the 1970s and 80s baked soils hard and left them impermeable. The floods of 2022 and 2024, for example, displaced millions across the four countries, and inundated agricultural land. Meanwhile, Boko Haram continues to cause terror in the towns and villages around the lake, with reports of an uptick in violence in Northeastern Nigeria in recent months, after several years of waning attacks. On the night of June 21, for example, a woman who had been hiding an improvised explosive device under her hijab reportedly killed at least 12 people after detonating it in a crowded fish market in the town of Konduga, in Nigeria's Borno state. 'These are really vicious attacks, and people are living in fear,' says Lael. 'You're in a marketplace, and you just do not know if the person next to you is carrying a bomb.' Humanitarian experts in countries across the Lake Chad region that have been interviewed by The Independent are warning that this crisis risks being forgotten as more high profile crises take the media spotlight – just as aid cuts put an already-delicate situation under ever greater stress. 'The Lake Chad Basin feels like a forgotten crisis, and with people not only forgetting that people are in dire need, but also that Nigeria's stability is crucial for regional stability,' says Lael. 'There is a sense that Lake Chad has not been very attractive to international funders, and the aid cuts are only making that worse,' adds Eugene Nforngwa, the programme director at the Africa Coalition for Sustainable Energy and Access, who is based in the Cameroon capital Yaoundé. 'Countries like the US, UK and the EU have prioritised other crises.' Nforngwa also confirms that Cameroon – which has an estimated 3.3 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance – is facing similar impacts following cuts to humanitarian aid, particularly from the US. 'Programmes have shrunk, facilities have closed, and many staff have lost their jobs,' he says. 'We now have a large number of organisations competing for a very small pool of funding.' Over the border in Chad, meanwhile, there have also been major cuts, with one source in the region telling The Independent that the human rights agency UNHCR has been dealing with a 40 per cent cut to its budget this year, despite the fact that there has been an influx of refugees from Sudan. 'On the climate front, sometimes there is a lack of rain, and at other times there is too much rain,' says Augustin Zusanne, a Chad-based analyst at the UN humanitarian agency OCHA. 'There also continues to be a major security threat from Boko Haram around Lake Chad.' OCHA's humanitarian response plan for Chad – which represents the total amount of money required to meet the country's humanitarian needs – is currently 11 per cent funded. Normally at this time in the year, it is 20-30 per cent funded, says Zusanne. Speaking at a conference organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development in London last week, Chad's environment minister Bakhit Djamous Hassan gave his assessment of the country's humanitarian situation. 'Our communities awake to a triple challenge, the devastating effects of climate change, ongoing insecurity and growing humanitarian needs,' he said. ''We are facing rampant desertification, preparing droughts followed by devastating flooded floods, all while hosting over a million refugees and internally displaced persons.' 'This convergence of crisis is not just statistical, it is the lived reality of millions struggling to survive.' Families on the front line Back in Nigeria, humanitarian workers report a feeling of fatigue among the victims of a humanitarian crisis that has now been dragging on for many years – and particularly so among the country's 3.7m internally-displaced people (IDPs), of whom more than half live in the Northeastern Borno State. 'People in the Northeast have been impacted by Boko Haram violence for 15 years now,' says Lael. 'Many are living in IDP camps, but even if not they will likely be topping up whatever they are able to farm with food assistance. And they are quite literally physically and emotionally exhausted.' These are people like 40-year-old Murka, who is the sole breadwinner for her 10 children and her missing husband's mother and father, and who has been receiving food aid assistance from WFP for just over five year. 'The WFP food ration only lasts us for 15 days and after that we start struggling again,' she told WFP in a recent fact-finding mission. 'Sometimes I don't eat just to ensure that I feed my husband's elderly parents and my children.' 25-year-old Yagana Bukar, who lives in Borno State with her four children, described similar hardships around not always having enough food, despite WFP's support. 'We just have water, which I put water on fire that keeps boiling just to keep assuring the children that food will soon be ready till they fall asleep,' she said. On the same mission, WFP also spoke to Ya Kaka, who receives malnutrition treatment for her eight-month-old baby. The 25-year-old described how she had been kidnapped by an armed group when she was 18 years old, married off to one of the fighters, and forced to have a child, before later escaping. 'I'm hoping and praying to God to take away all my pains,' she said. 'I want to forget all I've gone through or all that I'm always thinking about.' Even with WFP and other aid organisations offering their support, it can be hard for people to plan the future. A recent report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre describes the phenomenon of how, even after flood waters retreat, IDPs are simply 'staying in the camp' as they feel unable to pick their lives back up as a result of the persistant challenges. For such people, it is often the case that 'the only hope they can find in their lives' comes in the form of food assistance, says Lael. With that now under threat, the hopes of ever tackling the crisis around the Lake Chad basin look ever more remote.
Zawya
a day ago
- Politics
- Zawya
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Partners enhance Zimbabwe's resilience through European Union (EU)-Funded Anticipatory Action project
Zimbabwe is making significant progress in shifting from reactive to proactive disaster risk management, with support from the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), FAO, IFRC and WFP. This week, over 50 stakeholders from government, UN agencies, NGOs, and communities gathered in Bulawayo to reflect on the achievements, challenges and lessons learned from the two-year ECHO-funded anticipatory action project. Implemented between 2023 and 2025, the project aimed to enhance institutional systems and community capacities to prepare for and respond to climate-induced hazards, particularly in the wake of the 2023–2024 El Niño-induced drought, the worst in over four decades. The project established harmonized multi-stakeholder frameworks, developed and tested impact-based forecasting triggers, and scaled up disaster risk financing analysis. These efforts contributed to more coordinated and timely early warning and anticipatory responses, helping protect lives, livelihoods, and food and nutrition security. Judith Ncube, Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Bulawayo, said the drought tested every system but also revealed the strength of partnerships. 'The 2023–2024 El Niño drought brought untold hardship to our communities. Yet in the face of empty rivers, cracked fields and hunger, we saw something extraordinary; communities, government and aid agencies standing together. This workshop is not just about what went wrong, but how ordinary people's resilience helped shape extraordinary responses.' The project's key achievements include the establishment of the Anticipatory Action Community of Practice (CoP), a collaborative platform that has brought together government departments, humanitarian organizations and technical agencies to strengthen multi-sectoral coordination. Through this platform, Zimbabwe has institutionalized anticipatory action subcommittees at national, provincial and district levels, linking local decision-making to national systems. Edward Kallon, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Zimbabwe, underscored the shift in how Zimbabwe prepares for shocks. 'Anticipatory action is not just a technical process; it is a lifeline. It is about the mother in Chiredzi who received early warnings and planted drought-tolerant crops just in time. It is about a child in Tsholotsho who did not go hungry because food assistance came before the crisis hit. This is the future of disaster response.' At the peak of the drought crisis, the Government of Zimbabwe launched a US$3.3 billion appeal—US$2 billion for emergency response and US$1.3 billion for resilience-building. Supported by early warnings issued in mid-2023, the government swiftly rolled out a national Blitz Food Distribution Programme targeting the most vulnerable populations, including the elderly, people with disabilities, child-headed households and the chronically ill. Minister of Local Government and Public Works, Daniel Garwe emphasized the importance of UN support, stating that 33 percent of the funds raised came from UN agencies. This helped the government to institute a people-first approach in responding to the crisis. 'Behind the numbers are real people. The elderly, children in child-headed households, persons with disabilities—these were not forgotten. Through the Blitz Food Distribution Programme, Zimbabwe ensured food reached the most vulnerable. This is what human-centred disaster response looks like: swift, inclusive and built on compassion.' Key outputs of the ECHO-funded project - such as the national Anticipatory Action Roadmap, flood simulation exercises (SIMEX), and impact forecasting models - are now serving as templates for broader disaster risk management in the region. Testimonies from farmers, community videos and field visits to Matobo and Beitbridge showcased the results at the local level. The project also reinforced the importance of pre-arranged financing to enable faster response. 'Pre-arranged financing is a game changer. It means help is not delayed by paperwork when disaster looms,' said Edward Kallon. 'Zimbabwe's anticipatory action frameworks, built around pre-agreed triggers and activities are delivering faster, smarter support.' Patrice Talla, FAO Subregional Coordinator for Southern Africa, affirmed that Anticipatory Action is not merely a humanitarian tool, but a transformative model of governance. He highlighted how the recent ECHO-supported initiative in Zimbabwe laid critical foundations, such as hazard mapping, institutional roadmaps, and community-ready structures that enabled timely and life-saving interventions during the 2023–2024 El Niño drought. Patrice Talla further emphasized that Zimbabwe's approach is no longer a pilot, but a prototype for national systems, and called for its institutionalization through policy integration, pre-positioned finance, local capacity building, and cross-border coordination. 'Forecasts, should no longer be warnings; they should be the first lines of defense,' he asserted. As the learning event concluded, partners called for sustained investment in anticipatory action and a continued shift toward resilience-building. Participants emphasized that as climate risks intensify, early action must be integrated into national systems and financing structures to safeguard development gains. 'Let us act not only in response but in anticipation,' said Minister Daniel Garwe. 'Because the future belongs to those who prepare for it.' The ECHO-funded initiative has demonstrated that with the right partnerships, financing and community engagement, Zimbabwe can move from crisis response to long-term resilience. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): Regional Office for Africa.
The Independent
a day ago
- Business
- The Independent
Somalia has relied on aid for decades – can it survive without it?
Of all the countries in the world that will be affected by cuts to overseas aid announced this year, the impacts felt in Somalia will be among the most profound. The war-torn country has long been highly reliant on aid to function. Over 67 per cent funded by foreign donors, while the country's health system continues to be predominantly run by a mixture of international donors, agencies and NGOs. Cuts are already taking their toll: a World Food Programme (WFP) country spokesperson told The Independent that they have reduced food aid provision from 1.2m people per month to 820,000 per month despite the country's critical food needs, while USAID files analysed by The Independent show projects worth more than $400m have been terminated in Somalia by that agency alone. But while Somalia's example shows us why aid remains vitally important for some countries, it also helps illustrate why some politicians have become disillusioned by the way aid has been operating. Tens of billions of dollars have poured into the country since the country's civil war broke out in 1991, but the country's life expectancy remains below 50, GDP per capita remains below $500, and corruption levels were judged the second worst in Africa by Transparency International in 2024. 'There is a lot of donor fatigue when it comes to Somalia,' says Ahmed Soliman, Horn of Africa Programme researcher at Chatham House. 'The way that the US instigated its cuts in such a brutal and painful way, it is very difficult to predict how much everyone will suffer now,' adds a Mogadishu-based UN official, who did not wish to be named. 'But at the same time, aid dependency has been a problem for a long time in Somalia. This could be an opportunity for the country to stand on its own two feet a bit more.' There are some reasons to be hopeful that now could be a good moment for the country to begin to being weaned off aid dependency. Nation-building efforts, carried out in earnest since a new federal constitution was adopted in 2012, are beginning to pay dividends. Recent years have seen the government introduce legislation on everything from data protection to child welfare, while management of the country's national humanitarian 'safety net' has largely been transferred from NGOs to government authorities, says Somalia WFP spokesperson Sara Cuevas Gallardo. At a time when many African nations are crippled by unmanageable debt repayments, wide-ranging reforms instigated by Somalia's finance ministry have enabled the country's external debt to fall from 64 per cent of GDP in 2018 to less than 6 per cent of GDP by the end of 2023. Meanwhile, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has pledged to hold the country's first nation-wide federal election since 1969 next year. Efforts are also under way to tackle corruption in the country. The diversion of aid to local officials, clan leaders, or elders – labelled ' widespread and systemic ' by the UN in 2023 – has long been a concern for humanitarian operators in the country, but new initiatives around coordinating systems and boosting aid efficiency are increasingly being adopted, said the Mogadishu-based UN official. 'As time goes by, and as our country has struggled with the failures of institutional decay and turbulence in different formats, we are slowly but surely building back our institutions,' said Abdihakim Ainte, advisor to the Prime Minister of Somalia, at the recent climate resilience summit held by think tank IIED in London at the end of June. This shift is taking place at both a national and local level. In Southwest State – the country's most populous, and one long-impacted by cycles of drought, famine, and insecurity – a new piece of legislation, signed into law in February, aims at strengthening efforts to ensure that aid is used for its intended purposes by cutting out middle-men and criminalising unauthorised transportation or commercial usage, among other measures. 'The law is really very comprehensive, and we are training law enforcement and the court system to be able to enforce it,' says Abdinasir Abdi Arush, minister of humanitarian and disaster management in Southwest State. 'We have shared what we have done with other states as well as the federal government, to encourage them to carry out their own reforms.' In the private sector, meanwhile, the billions of dollars in remittances sent by the Somali diaspora shows there are revenue streams beyond humanitarian aid that the country can capitalise on, while certain business success stories offer hope that profits are possible even in the most challenging of economic environments. The $2.4bn in remittances that the IMF tracked Somalia receiving in 2024 is more than double the $1bn the UN tracked the country receiving in aid. The World Bank describes the diaspora as a ' vital economic force ' in the country, while the strength of remittances last year led the IMF to upgrade 2025 GDP growth last year to a buoyant 4 per cent. Abdullahi Nur Osman, CEO of Hormuud Salaam Foundation, a non-profit that makes charitable donations, argues that Somali businesses will be the key driving force from aid dependency. The Hormuud Salaam Foundation is funded via profits from Somalia's largest bank and largest telecoms provider, Salaam Somali Bank and Hormuud Telecom. 'Our staff in the country are part of the local community, and have local knowledge and trust,' Osman says. 'The private sector has not only managed to survive through civil war, but has thrived.' Hormuud Telecom provides Somalis with some of the cheapest mobile data globally, at an average cost of $0.50 per gigabyte, while Salaam Somali Bank's widely used mobile money platform has contributed to Somalia becoming a 'largely cashless society', says Osman, with over 70 per cent of adults now using mobile money transfers. Such digital infrastructure developed out of necessity, allowing Somalia to continue doing business regardless of security concerns – and it is also now widely used by NGOs to send funds and early warning messages for crises like drought or flooding. Osman acknowledges, however, that the country continues to face key obstacles to becoming less aid-dependent. He believes that while they provide crucial financial support, 'remittances cannot replace the role of the state'. He also thinks that a reluctance from aid agencies to fund long-term resilience work, and a tendency to focus instead on solely addressing humanitarian crises – a dynamic set to become even more pronounced as aid belts tighten this year – is holding the country back. Somalia also struggles to attract foreign investors, with foreign direct investment currently totalling less than half of annual aid flows, and worth less than $1bn per year. 'The most important thing we need in Somalia is foreign direct investment, which the government has been working hard to attract, in areas such as energy and fisheries,' says Osman. 'This continues to be a major challenge.' There are concerns, too, that when foreign investment does come, it is not necessarily being well-regulated. A wide-ranging hydrocarbons agreement signed between Turkey and Somalia in April drew significant criticism for giving Turkey access to 90 per cent of Somalia's oil and gas revenues, according to documents published by Turkey's Parliament. For his part, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud defended the deal as one with 'shared benefits', arguing that Turkey was the only country willing to invest. The story of Somalia's oil and gas also speaks to a broader problem facing the country that will need to be more effectively addressed if the country is to stand on its own: the issue of weak governance. President Mohamud, first in power between 2012 and 2017 and now again since 2022, is a man accused by some of economic mismanagement and power-grab. Even more concerningly, Somalia continues to be impacted by Civil War, with Al Qaeda terrorist group Al Shabaab controlling some 40 per cent of the country, the provinces of Jubbaland and Puntland attempting to break away, and clans regularly fighting over resources on a local level. Ahmed Soliman, from Chatham House, believes that the federal government has had a tendency to look outwards for legitimacy from foreign donors or resources like oil and gas, when the reality is that its hold on power is actually weakening, with constitutional reforms under President Mohamud's administration leading to fighting between Jubbaland and the federal government in recent months. 'There is a sense that the federal project is stalling a bit, and the security picture is failing to evolve in a positive way,' says Soliman. 'The aid dependency continues because the core dilemma of the relationship between the centre and the regions has yet to be resolved.' The lack of clear government control means that everyone from large companies to informal sellers is forced to pay taxes or security provision multiple times to groups including the local government, the federal government, local militia, and police forces, and Al Shabaab, says Soliman. Recent months have seen Al Shabaab boost its territory, with far fewer resources than the federal government, to the point of threatening Mogadishu in recent months. What is now required is careful, consensus-driven negotiation between different parties to build a more sustainable, popular governance model for the country – something 'nobody thinks for one second is going to be easy, but requires politicians acting in the national interest ahead of self interest', says Soliman. climate and security concerns escalating, and aid cuts biting, Somalia continues to face a difficult situation. It remains to be seen whether the country's political class will be able to navigate the country through.
Zawya
2 days ago
- Politics
- Zawya
The European Union (EU) and World Food Programme (WFP) enhance self-reliance and food security for refugees and host communities in Uganda
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of EUR 5 million from the European Union (EU) to support income-generating activities to enhance self-reliance and food security for refugees and host communities in Uganda. Uganda hosts 1.9 million refugees and asylum seekers, making it the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa. The Government of Uganda's national refugee policy allows refugees to work and move freely, but economic opportunities remain scarce in and around refugee settlements, meaning that humanitarian and development assistance are a lifeline for refugee families as they seek to build a self-reliant life in safety. 'Empowering refugees in Uganda to become self-reliant has never been more important,' said Genevieve Chicoine, WFP's Acting Country Director in Uganda. 'This vital contribution from the European Union will enable WFP to support thousands of refugees and host communities with the skills they need to earn a living and put food on the table.' WFP supports 660,000 refugees in Uganda with cash transfers and in-kind food assistance, as well as programmes to increase self-reliance and improve the nutrition of mothers and their children. This contribution from the EU will support the food security for 12,600 refugees in the Nakivale and Oruchinga refugee settlements and 5,400 host community members. It includes training on best farming practices like regenerative agriculture, financial literacy skills for business management and resource growth, and nutrition assistance for pregnant and breastfeeding women. 'This partnership reflects a shift from delivering aid to delivering opportunity,' said Guillaume Chartrain, European Union Deputy Head of Delegation to Uganda. 'Refugees and host communities are gaining the tools they need to shape their own futures. By investing in people's skills and potential, we are supporting more stable, self-reliant communities—and that benefits everyone.' This initiative is part of the European Union's Action for Protection, Assistance and Durable Solutions for Displaced Populations in Sub-Saharan Africa (EUPADS), supporting efforts to address the root causes of displacement while reinforcing national policies for displaced people living in countries like Uganda. WFP's food assistance programmes in Uganda are facing critical funding shortfalls. In May, the agency was forced to halt food assistance for nearly one million refugees and reduce food rations for others to an unprecedented low of 22 percent. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of World Food Programme (WFP).
Zawya
2 days ago
- Politics
- Zawya
The Republic of Korea supports food security for vulnerable communities in northern Mozambique
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes generous contributions from the Republic of Korea for the second consecutive year, totalling US$ 7.6 million to improve food security for communities affected by multiple shocks in northern Mozambique. The contributions, comprising more than 5,000 metric tonnes of high-quality rice, will enable WFP to deliver life-saving food assistance to over 233,000 vulnerable people in Cabo Delgado Province. The Republic of Korea has been a key partner to WFP in Mozambique, providing critical support at a time marked by protracted internal conflict, recurring climate shocks, and growing funding gaps. During the 2024-2025 cyclone season, northern Mozambique was hit by three cyclones in as many months, affecting more than 1.4 million people — many of whom were already reeling from the effects of the ongoing conflict in Cabo Delgado province. This generous contribution from the Republic of Korea will help prevent a further deterioration in food and nutrition security for the most vulnerable groups in the north. 'This support comes at a crucial time — it's more than a donation, it's a lifeline that helps protect people's dignity and restore hope in a region that has endured far too much,' said Antonella D'Aprile, WFP Country Director in Mozambique.' Thanks to the continued solidarity of the Republic of Korea, we can reach the most fragile communities in Cabo Delgado with food assistance. 'This contribution reflects the strong partnership between the Republic of Korea and Mozambique, and our shared commitment to humanitarian values. In the face of conflict and climate shocks, it is essential to act with urgency and compassion. The ROK will continue to stand by Mozambique on the path to recovery and resilience,' referred Bok Won KANG, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Mozambique. The Republic of Korea has been a long-standing partner of WFP in Mozambique. Since 2019, it has contributed more than US$ 16.3 million to support the country's most vulnerable populations with lifesaving assistance and restoration of livelihoods. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of World Food Programme (WFP).
