World Bank says it just signed agreement with development partners to provide $100 million to help Sudan fight hunger

Simon Ateba( Chief White House Correspondent )

Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.

The World Bank announced on Thursday that ‘at the request of the international community’, it has signed a new agreement with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide $100 million in financing directly to WFP for a new Sudan Emergency Safety Nets Project that will benefit more more than two million food insecure people in Sudan.