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UN AGENCY RAISES JUST 20% OF NEEDED SOUTHERN AFRICA DROUGHT AID IN TOUGH FUNDING
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By Nyasha Chingono
August 6, 20244:56 PM GMT+2Updated 2 days ago
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 * WFP had aimed to raise $400 million for region
 * Food needs have jumped due to drought, resources scant
 * WFP needs to feed 27 mln in region until 2025 harvest season
 * Frequent dry spells, prolonged droughts expected -UN's Ghelani

HARARE, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Programme has faced challenges in
raising $400 million for its southern Africa drought response, collecting just
one-fifth of what it needs to help seven countries in the region, a WFP
spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The funding environment had become increasingly difficult as drought has
dramatically raised the region's food needs, Thomson Phiri told Reuters.
Southern Africa is experiencing its worst drought in decades, forcing Zambia,
Malawi and Zimbabwe to declare states of disaster. The drought was a result of
the El Niño climate phenomenon, which can change world weather patterns, bring
extreme seasonal temperatures, rainfall or dry spells and hurt crop yields.
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About 70% of the Southern African population that relies on rain-fed agriculture
had their harvests "wiped out" by lack of rains, Phiri told Reuters in May.
The WFP aims to use the proceeds raised so far to feed 5.9 million out of 27
million in the region who are food-insecure until the next harvest season in
2025, and had started sourcing white grain from Tanzania, South Africa and Latin
America to feed regional communities.
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Despite notable donor support, current food needs were "exceptionally high and
outpacing available resources," during a historical drought, Phiri said.
Some donors have had to trim their aid budgets and "people in places such as
southern Africa are now facing a double whammy where they are reeling both from
the historic drought and severe funding cuts," he said.
The UN's climate crisis coordinator for the El Niño response, Reena Ghelani,
called for urgent action.

"We are very worried," Ghelani told Reuters last week. "In fact we are seeing a
sharp increase in the number of people going hungry."
Ghelani warned of a prolonged dry spell and frequent droughts across the region
in coming years as a result of climate change.
(This story has been refiled to clarify that the proceeds will be used to feed
5.9 million out of 27 million, in paragraph 5)


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