Attachments
In Numbers
- 91,532 people assisted
- 197 mt of food assistance distributed
- US$ 183,083 in cash-based transfers made
- US$ 58.7 million six-month net funding WFP Cameroon requirements (May–October 2025)
Operational Updates
• Food assistance during emergencies: In April 2025, WFP assisted 8,570 refugees and vulnerable host populations in the East and Adamawa regions, distributing 10 mt of food and US$ 43,400 in cash transfers.
• Malnutrition prevention and management of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM): WFP assisted 56,760 children aged 6-59 months with 162 mt of specialised nutritious foods (SNFs). Most beneficiaries (97.5 percent) were assisted under moderate acute malnutrition supplementation.
• School feeding activities: WFP continued school meal distribution under the Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) initiative in the East, Northwest and Southwest regions and school meals in emergencies in the Far North Region. WFP provided meals to approximately 26,130 primary school children during recess, prepared from food commodities valued at US$ 101,000 supplied by local cooperatives.
• Resilience-building activities: In April 2025, WFP and its partners continued to support communities in managing the agriculture-based assets they had created through the programme in all intervening regions. Cash assistance to activity participants was not scheduled this month in almost all activity sites.
• The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) continued to operate flights to Maroua and N’Djamena (Chad) from Yaounde. A total of 218 passengers were transported in 44 flight segments in April 2025.
• The Douala Port is the main logistics entry point for humanitarian operations in Chad and West Sudan. From January to April 2025, over 41,096 mt of WFP food assistance were transported through the Cameroon corridor to Chad and West Sudan. This dispatch brings the total food commodities transported through the Corridor for Sudanese response (since April 2023) to approximately 55,690 mt.