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Updated on: September 10, 2025 08:50 PM IST
The World Food Program said that governments in Sub-Sahara Africa have provided school food to about 20 million additional children in the last two years.
The World Food Program (WFP) said on Wednesday that governments in Sub-Sahara Africa have provided school food to about 20 million additional children in the last two years.
The area saw the biggest growth in the school in any region from about one third to 87 million in the region. Ethiopia, Rwanda and even seriously poor Madagascar and Chad all managed to feed six times during this period.
The report said, “Government investment in school food … (sign) Children’s education (and) a significant change on foreign aid to recognize school food as a strategic public investment in health,” the report states in the report.
It was a welcome bright place on a continent affected by the rising number of hungry people as a result of climate change, armed conflict and extreme weather associated with food inflation.
A United Nations report at the end of July found that one of the five Africans, 307 million, was chronicly malnourished, meaning that hunger is worse than two decades ago. It predicted that the continent would have 60% hungry people in the continent by 2030.
Poor countries face assistance from their rich counterparts, assisting their assistance branch and some European countries to assist to spend their own against Russia.
The WFP report found that local farmers also benefited from feeding school. The government to buy Benin’s local food for these programs contributed more than $ 23 million to the economy in 2024. More than one -third of the school food in Sierra Leone came from food produced by small farmers.
However, it warned that millions of children, especially some of the lowest -income African countries such as Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Somalia and South Sudan, still lack access to school food, as the donor support continued to decline.
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