The United Nations World Food Programme, which relies on the U.S. for nearly half its budget, is closing its Southern Africa bureau due to funding constraints, the agency said on Monday as the region struggles to withstand a severe drought.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announced Monday that it was closing its southern Africa bureau due to funding constraints after the Trump administration announced last week that it was terminating 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts.

Bloomberg reported on Monday that the United Nations' World Food Program (WFP), which receives most of its funding from the United States, is shutting down its office in South Africa. According to the report,

The United Nations' World Food Programme, which gets much of its funding from the United States, is closing its southern African bureau due to funding constraints, the agency said on Monday. WFP gets nearly half of its donations in a typical year from the United States,

The World Food Programme is closing its southern African bureau, impacting food aid efforts during one of the worst droughts in the region. The decision follows a communication by Global Executive Director Cindy McCain,

The United Nations’ World Food Program is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts

The United Nations' World Food Programme, which gets much of its funding from the United States, is closing its southern African bureau, a communications officer said on Monday. The WFP's decision was communicated to staff around the world in an email on Friday from Global Executive Director Cindy McCain.

The United Nations' World Food Programme is closing its southern Africa bureau due to funding issues, primarily affecting support from the United States. This decision, announced by Executive Director Cindy McCain,

The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), which gets much of its funding from the United States, is closing its southern African bureau, Bloomberg News said on Monday. The decision was communicated to staff around the world in an email on Friday from Global Executive Director Cindy McCain,

The United Nations’ World Food Programme is closing its southern African bureau that’s been leading a response to the worst drought in the region in four decades as it expects funding from donors such as the US to slump by two fifths.

The decision comes amid widespread drought throughout the region, as well as an increasingly fraught war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.