China donates $2m to WFP for Somalia aid
Authorities in Somalia are grappling with the effects of climatic change.
According to a recent Food and Agriculture Organization report five million people in Somalia are not getting enough food, which is more than 40 percent of the country’s population. Among them, over 300,000 children under five are acutely malnourished.The Chinese government has donated two million U.S. dollars to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its humanitarian work in Somalia as part of China’s assistance to the Horn of African nation.
The donation will go towards providing access to nutritious and curative food for malnourished children and mothers.