Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have provided school meals to roughly 20 million extra children over the past two years, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday, showing a move away from dependence on foreign aid and a stronger commitment to education.

The region saw the biggest rise in school feeding of any region, by nearly a third to 87 million in 2024. Ethiopia, Rwanda and even severely impoverished Madagascar and Chad all managed to feed six times as many over the period.

"Government investments in school meals … (signal) a significant shift from reliance on foreign aid to recognising school meals as a strategic public investment in children's education (and) health," the report said.

It was a welcome bright spot on a continent plagued by rising numbers of hungry people as a result of extreme weather linked to climate change, armed conflict and food inflation.

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2 comments

  1. What is this nonsense!? Positive news! On MY doomscrolling application!?

    I shall not stand for this, there has to be something nefarious behind this.

  2. Wholesome.

    I wish countries like Canada and other developed nations that still pretend to care about human rights would do more to aid this. Not so
    much direct food aid, which from
    what I understand does lasting harm outside emergencies, and more indirect help to secure the future for the increasingly precarious Africa.

    So building desalination plants, funding anti-desertification initiatives in the Sahel, Sudan and Namibia, giving grants and cost + 2% loans for solar and wind, stuff
    like that. Subsaharan Africa is going to be devastated by climate change and they need everything they can get, without the predatory behaviour of previous colonial and neocolonial works.

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