JAKARTA - Nearly 14 million people in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan are at risk of severe hunger due to cuts in global humanitarian aid.
The largest donor of the United Nations (WFP) World Food program, United States, has cut its foreign aid under President Donald Trump.
Other major countries have also carried out or announced cuts in development and humanitarian aid.
"WFP funding has never been as difficult as this. This agency expects to receive less 40% of funds for 2025, resulting in a projected budget of $6.4 billion, down from $10 billion by 2024," said the agency headquartered in Rome. reported by Reuters, Wednesday, October 15.
The WFP report, titled "A Lifeline at Risk", warns its food aid cuts could push 13.7 million people from a "crisis" hunger rate to an "emergency" level, another step from hunger on a five-tier international hunger scale.
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"The gap between what the WFP needs to do and what we can do has never been this big. We risk losing the progress that has been achieved for decades in fighting hunger," said WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain.
"It's not just countries that have been hit by a major state of emergency. Even the progress made with great difficulty in the Sahel region, where 500,000 people have been free from dependence, can experience severe setbacks without help, and we want to prevent it."
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