YAOUNDE, Cameroon — The World Food Program warned Friday that hunger could reach catastrophic levels in parts of Cameroon if a funding target of at least $67 million is not met.

Speaking in the capital Yaoundé, Gianluca Ferrera, the WFP representative for Cameroon and Sao Tome and Principe, said progress made in the fight against hunger could be reversed without adequate funding.

“Without this funding, most of the activities that WFP and partners have been implementing will have to stop, bringing forward a number of risks,” he said.

Cameroon is the world’s most neglected displacement crisis, according to a Norwegian Refugee Council report from earlier this year.

The country faces several severe crises: Boko Haram insurgency in the north, a separatist uprising in the two English-speakin

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