WFP receives $118m towards emergency food rations for people in EA region

Mozambicans queue with their belongings as they wait to be airlifted to refugee camps where they can receive clean water and food.

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The World Food Programme (WFP) has secured $118 million to support over one million displaced people in seven eastern Africa countries, including five East African Community (EAC) member states.

The fresh funding boost from the US through USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, comes as WFP reported a two-fold increase in the number of displaced people requiring emergency food rations in the region in the past four years alone.