The World Food Program (WFP) has stated that it will suspend its interventions to prevent malnutrition in Yemen starting next month, due to a severe funding shortfall, which will affect more than two million people.

The program said in a recent report, "The severe funding shortage, coupled with the continuous interruption of supplies, will force us to completely suspend malnutrition prevention activity in Yemen, starting next August, which will have an impact on the 2.4 million malnourished people in the country, who are among the most vulnerable.

The report added that this suspension comes to direct the simple funds available in the program toward treating the most serious cases. "

The available scarce resources to the WFP will be used to cover the requirements of the life-saving acute malnutrition treatment program," which is more dangerous than moderate malnutrition.

The report indicated that the financing of the World Food Program plan for the next six months (August 2023 - January 2024) was only met by 28%.