The Italian government has announced that it will provide 2 million euros to strengthen the activities of the World Food Program (WFP) in central Mozambique.

"The contribution aims to strengthen climate resilience and improve nutrition in central Mozambique and will be awarded, through the Italian Embassy and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), at a ceremony scheduled for next Tuesday in Maputo," says an e-Global publication, quoted by the Italian government.

In October, the Government of Japan provided 1.5 million dollars for the WFP to assist at least 50,000 people affected by armed violence in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique.

The donation came less than a month after the UN agency announced that it was reducing its assistance to at least 418,630 victims of armed violence due to a lack of funds.

"With rising food prices and increasing operating costs, people affected by the conflict are facing even greater difficulties," said WFP Mozambique director Antonella D'Aprile at the time.