Today the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced nearly $3.4 million in additional emergency humanitarian food assistance to meet the urgent needs caused by Cyclone Idai and the related flooding in the Republic of Mozambique. This donation brings the total U.S. investment in this humanitarian response in southern Africa to nearly $4.1 million.
The new funding, provided to the World Food Programme, will help deliver approximately 2,500 metric tons of rice, peas, and vegetable oil to affected people in Sofala, Zambezia, and Manica Provinces. This life-saving emergency food assistance will support approximately 160,000 people for one month.
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