WFP Mauritania Country Brief, January 2020
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USD 0.8 m cash-based transfers made
USD 11.8 m six months (February 2020 – July 2021) net funding requirements
86,231 people assisted in January 2021
Operational Updates
WFP continued implementing treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in Guidimakha, Assaba and Hodh El Charghi regions, reaching 7,161 children and pregnant and lactating women. A new screening exercise is under preparation for Assaba and Hodh El Charghi region in order to identify people in need of nutrition assistance.
The school feeding programme resumed on 4 January following the decision of the Mauritanian government to reopen schools. A daily morning porridge and a hot meal were distributed to 19,694 pupils in the three regions of the country where WFP already implemented a package of resilience building activities. As part of a refocusing exercise to concentrate school-canteens in the same communes and departments as resilience sites, new schools were i
By Shelley Thakral
World Food Programme calls for more than $130m to reach displaced people and host communities on the brink
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People who’ve fled Cabo Delgado wait for humanitarian assistance in Palma, Mozambique. Photo: WFP/Sean Rajman
25 January 2021 (WFP) Escalating violence in northern Mozambique is pushing hundreds of thousands of people into food insecurity, according to Lola Castro, the World Food Programme (WFP)‘s Regional Director for Southern Africa.
“The situation is dire,” she says. “The food assistance WFP is providing every month is not enough for people to survive. ”
Without a cash injection of US$132.4 million to sustain operations for a year, rations may be cut and food distribution may stop altogether the operation needs US$10.5 million for the next month.
Northern Mozambique: Too hungry to think past tomorrow
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World Food Programme calls for more than $130m to reach displaced people and host communities on the brink
Escalating violence in northern Mozambique is pushing hundreds of thousands of people into food insecurity, according to Lola Castro, the World Food Programme (WFP) s Regional Director for Southern Africa.
“The situation is dire,” she says. “The food assistance WFP is providing every month is not enough for people to survive. Without a cash injection of US$132.4 million to sustain operations for a year, rations may be cut and food distribution may stop altogether the operation needs US$10.5 million for the next month.