UN Aid Agencies Facing Hunger Funding Crisis
-- The Guardian
-- The Guardian
• World Food Programme cutting Zimbabwe rations
• Shortfall of billions from international donors
The UN's biggest humanitarian aid agencies, which house and feed over 100 million people, are facing a deep - and potentially long term - crisis of funding as governments across the globe slash their aid budgets. Despite cutting over $1bn (£650m) from its budget for the next year, largely through savings in the cost of fuel, the World Food Programme yesterday revealed that it would struggle to meet its commitments to feed 49 million people in 12 of the world's most hunger-stricken countries and was already planning to cut rations, including to Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
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