The World Food Programme (WFP) will halt funding for a programme that has been supplying meals to over 1.5 million school children in arid and semi-arid areas, a move that puts the pupils at risk of dropping out of school.
WFP deputy country director Paul Turnbull has said the project, known as the Home Grown School Meals Programme, was being gradually handed over to the government and that the UN agency will fully dissociate itself from it in two years.
