“The gaps are unprecedented,” Rania Dagash-Kamara, the UN’s World Food Programme’s assistant executive director for partnerships and innovation, told reporters in Geneva. The WFP is facing a 75% shortfall in its funding, with dire and deadly consequences.
“Country by country, we are making brutal choices about who to reach,” she said. While there has been much focus on US cuts, Washington remains the WFP’s top donor. While the the biggest shock to the system has been “the collective European pullback and cuts,” she said.
Dagash-Kamara stressed that cuts are being made to “life-saving work” at a time when multiple famines are looming. Malnutrition clinics are closing as many countries decided to pull out the support.
