Cameroon: Empty Cooking Pots, Rising Hunger in Cameroon

WFP and other humanitarians are stretching lean budgets to support millions reeling from conflict, displacement and climate shocks in the Central African nation

By the time the sun climbs high over the town of Mora, in Cameroon’s Far North Region, many cooking pots like Esther’s are already empty.

She has joined dozens of women queuing up at a World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution site, her youngest child tied securely to her back. Displaced by violence from Kolofata, a small town about 22…