China provides Cameroon USD$5 million in humanitarian food supplies through the WFP

On September 21, 2018, Chinese Ambassador Wang Yingwu and the representative of the World Food Program in Cameroon, Abdoulaye Balde, held a handover ceremony of food aid intended for refugees in Cameroon. The donated items were worth 5 million USD (around 2.813 billion CFA).

The donation was in furtherance of a memorandum of understanding signed between the World Food Program and China in 2016 aimed at ending world hunger. The donation was provided by the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund (SSCAF), a Chinese state owned fund.

According to SSCAF's 2019 Project Highlights report, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the China International Development Cooperation Agency were involved in the project implementation. The donation was destined for around 2,330,000 refugees and displaced persons in Cameroon's northwest and southwest.

This population includes those fleeing Boko Haram insurgents and the Anglophone Crisis.

The donation included 4,162 MT food commodities including rice, legumes, sorghum, vegetable oil, corn soya blend and iodized salt, according to the SSCAF report.