{"id":36877,"date":"2026-06-12T08:34:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36877"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:34:58","slug":"funding-crisis-deepens-at-wfp","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/funding-crisis-deepens-at-wfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding crisis deepens at WFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The acting Head of the World Food Programme (WFP) says they are experiencing historic drops in funding with a 40% drop year to year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">This is creating a perfect storm with already record levels of hunger around the world, further exacerbated by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The United Nations (UN) Agency that provides food assistance in theatres around the world, warned in March that were the conflict in the Middle East to persist.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">About 45 million people fell into acute food insecurity, a situation confirmed to now be playing out in real time including raising the cost of running humanitarian operations that have gone up dramatically in an already precarious context.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33492,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-36877","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"World Food Programme","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36879,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36877\/revisions\/36879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}