WFP Yemen Situation Report #6, June 2023

Highlights
• WFP food security data show that inadequate food consumption rates bounced back to pre-Ramadan levels in May. However, food consumption levels have now remained stable or improved over the past six months.
• WFP is preparing to fully suspend its malnutrition prevention interventions in Yemen as early as August due to critical funding shortfalls, affecting all 2.4 million people originally targeted.
• Under the general food assistance programme, WFP has been forced to shift 900,000 people from cash-based to in-kind food assistance due to funding shortfalls.
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