WFP halves Syria food aid as funding cuts force major rollbacks

The World Food Programme has halved emergency food assistance in Syria amid severe funding shortages, reducing beneficiaries from about 1.3 million to 650,000 in May and scaling operations down from 14 governorates to seven. The agency also suspended a bread subsidy that supported more than 300 bakeries and had provided subsidised fortified bread to up to four million people daily. WFP officials stress the reductions are driven by funding shortfalls rather than a fall in need.

Humanitarian needs remain acute: 7.2 million people in Syria are now acutely food insecure, including 1.6 million facing severe hunger, with many households cutting meal sizes or skipping meals. The WFP says it requires $189 million for June–November to sustain and restore assistance and warns donor cuts — including reduced U.S. foreign aid under President Trump — have also led to reduced support for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, where cash and other food programmes have been trimmed or halted as reported by Al-Monitor

This story has also been reported by: The Syrian Observer, SANA