WFP Yemen Situation Report #6, June 2023
Highlights
• WFP food security data show that inadequate food consumption rates bounced back to pre-Ramadan levels in May. However, food consumption levels have now remained stable or improved over the past six months.
• WFP is preparing to fully suspend its malnutrition prevention interventions in Yemen as early as August due to critical funding shortfalls, affecting all 2.4 million people originally targeted.
• Under the general food assistance programme, WFP has been forced to shift 900,000 people from cash-based to in-kind food assistance due to funding shortfalls.
Sana'a -- Local residents and field sources have reported an unprecedented security and military mobilization in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital u…
Marib -- A U.S. drone strike in Yemen’s northeastern Marib province has killed a senior field commander of al-Qaeda along with one of his com…
Aden -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has announced efforts to mobilize more than $260 million to finance its E…