WFP Provides $5.4 Billion to Lebanon over 3 Next Years

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Naguib Mikati said today, Monday, that the World Food Program (WFP) has agreed to allocate $5.4 billion to help Lebanon over the next three years, while the country's economic crisis is pushing millions into poverty.

Mikati gave clarifications about the ways to spend the WFP's aid, stressing that half of the aid will go to the Lebanese, while the other half will go to the Syrian refugees, more than a million of whom live in Lebanon, according to government estimates.

It is worth noting that 70% of the aid offered by the WFP was allocated to the Syrian refugees and 30% to the Lebanese during the previous years.

The representative of the World Food Program and the country director of the WFP in Lebanon, Abdallah Al-Wardat, met with Mikati on Monday, and said after the meeting the aid will include in-kind and cash aid, according to a statement issued by Mikati's office.

Al-Wardat added that the WFP would provide cash assistance to one million refugees and one million Lebanese in the country of six million.

Lebanon is currently suffering from a crisis that the World Bank considers one of the worst in 185 years, as a result of decades of corruption and economic mismanagement, which culminated in the financial collapse in 2019.