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GENEVA: The United Nations warned on Tuesday that dramatic funding cuts for aid, at a time of multiple crises, have created unparallelled gaps, leaving tens of millions going hungry.
The UN’s World Food Programme said it was facing a 75-percent shortfall in its funding, with dire and deadly consequences.
“The gaps are unprecedented,” Rania Dagash-Kamara, WFP’s assistant executive director for partnerships and innovation, told reporters in Geneva. “Country by country, we are making brutal choices about who to reach.” While there has been much focus on US cuts, Dagash-Kamara stressed that Washington remained WFP’s top donor.
Published in Dawn, June 3rd, 2026
