Food aid programme facing drop in funding

The World Food Programme says they are experiencing historic drops in funding with a 40% drop year to year, creating a perfect storm with already record levels of hunger around the world, further exacerbated by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

The U.N. Agency that provides food assistance in theaters around the world warned in March that were the conflict in the Middle East to persist, that some 45 million people will fall into acute food insecurity.

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