{"id":37352,"date":"2026-06-17T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37352"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:07:58","slug":"wfp-gets-800m-grant-from-us-after-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/wfp-gets-800m-grant-from-us-after-funding-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"WFP\u00a0gets $800m grant from US after funding cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday it welcomed an $800 million contribution \u200bfrom the United States (US), following previous funding cuts \u200cfrom President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The funds will help scale up assistance and respond rapidly to emerging crises at a\u00a0\u200btime when global hunger is at record\u00a0\u200blevels and the number of people facing acute\u00a0\u2060hunger is expected to rise this year, WFP\u00a0\u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The US is the WFP&#8217;s biggest donor, but its \u200bcontribution more than halved from 2024 to around $2 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">WFP said the new funding would allow it to pre-position \u200bfood supplies, expand cash assistance programmes and maintain \u200bsupply chains in crisis-hit areas such as Lebanon, Haiti and \u200cthe \u2060Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The US has long been the world&#8217;s largest humanitarian donor, though its contributions have fluctuated sharply in recent years amid shifts in foreign \u200baid policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In \u200b2025, US humanitarian \u2060funding to the UN fell to about $3.38 billion from $14.1 billion a year earlier \u200bafter major spending cut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">On Tuesday, the US \u200bState \u2060Department also announced $218 million in assistance to the UN children&#8217;s agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33492,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-37352","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"UN World Food Programme","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37352","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\/37352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37353,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37352\/revisions\/37353"}],"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=37352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}