The United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday it would halt food and nutrition assistance to more than 2 million people in Nigeria and the Central Sahel region next month without urgent funding to bridge shortfalls.

The global reduction in foreign aid is severely impacting our ability to operate, particularly in Central Sahel and Nigeria,” said Margot van der Velden, WFP’s Regional Director for Western Africa.

The United Nations World Food Programme, which relies on the U.S. for nearly half its budget, is closing its Southern Africa bureau due to funding constraints, the agency said on Monday as the region struggles to withstand a severe drought.

The aid lifeline for Umm Muhammad and hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians is now under existential threat as Israel lays siege to Gaza once again.

The fortification programme is a strategic intervention designed to curb the high prevalence of anaemia in Egypt, particularly among children and women of reproductive age.

The decision comes amid widespread drought throughout the region, as well as an increasingly fraught war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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