WFP’s troubles in Sudan hurt hunger relief, alienated donors - report

Serious problems in the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) response to the Sudan crisis are hampering the organisation’s ability to alleviate hunger in the war-torn country and damaging its reputation with donors, according to a recent internal report seen by Reuters.The UN’s main food-aid distributor, the WFP is struggling to feed millions of people in the African country, which is suffering one of the world’s worst hunger crises. The report identifies a range of problems in the WFP’s Sudan response, including an inability to scale up its operations, missed funding opportunities and what it describes as “anti-fraud challenges.”The report is the result of an assessment in July and August by the WFP’s Regional Emergency Coordination (REC) team, which was tasked with helping to expand the UN body’s operations in Sudan and neighbouring countries. The team’s findings are detailed in a five-page “REC Diagnostic Report,” marked confidential and dated A30 ugust. The report calls Sudan the WFP’s largest emergency.News of the report comes as the WFP is struggling to secure billions of dollars for hunger hotspots around the world and is battling a crisis of confidence among the United States and other top donors. In Sudan, roughly half the population of 50 million is estimated to be suffering from severe hunger amid the civil war that has ravaged the country since April 2023. Hundreds are believed to be dying from starvation and hunger-related disease each day.

WFP’s troubles in Sudan hurt hunger relief, alienated donors - report

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