WFP to Cut Food Aid to 1 Million People in Myanmar

Yangon, Myanmar— The UN’s World Food Programme will be forced to cut off 1 million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because of “critical funding shortfalls,” it said Friday.

The United States provided the WFP with US$4.4 billion of its $9.7 billion budget in 2024, but Washington’s international aid funding has been slashed under President Donald Trump.

Myanmar has been gripped by civil war since a 2021 military coup, plunging it into what the UN describes as a “polycrisis” of mutually compounding conflict, poverty, and instability.