Highlights

• A WFP staff member was killed in At Turbah, Ta’iz governorate on 21 July. WFP partially suspended activities in the area following the attack.

• WFP is facing critical funding shortages for its nutrition activities. The preventative cash assistance programme was suspended in July, with looming shortfalls for its lifesaving moderate acute malnutrition treatment programme.

• WFP in late July resumed school feeding in areas under the Sana’a based authorities, where the 2023-2024 school year started on 22 July. WFP is targeting 1.8 million students across Yemen this school year.

Food Security Situation:

• According to the latest WFP Yemen Food Security Update covering the month of June, the nationwide rate of inadequate food consumption increased by four percentage-point from May to June, reaching 49 percent, the highest level seen since February 2023:

• Slightly worse outcomes were seen in areas under the internationally recognized Government of Yemen (IRG, south operational area) at 52 percent, as compared to areas under the Sana’a-based authorities (SBA, north operational area), at 43 percent.

Security Situation:

• On 21 July, Moayad Hameidi, the head of WFP’s field office in At Turbah (Ta’iz governorate) was killed by two masked gunmen. At least two other civilians, including another staff member, were also injured.

• Following the attack, WFP suspended its general food assistance programme in 12 districts covered by the At Turbah field office. Operations continue in districts of Ta'iz governorate covered by WFP’s Al Makha field office.

• Hameidi is the first humanitarian killed in the line of duty in Yemen this year. Since 2015, 37 humanitarian workers have been killed in Yemen