UN food agency seeks urgent funding to avoid aid cuts to Rohingya
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) called on Friday for urgent funding for its Bangladesh operations, warning that a funding deficit would curb rations for the Rohingya in the world's largest refugee settlement.
UN Food Agency Shuts Southern Africa Hub Amid Trump Aid Cuts
The United Nations’ World Food Programme is closing its southern African bureau that’s been leading a response to the worst drought in the region in four decades as it expects funding from donors such as the US to slump by two fifths.
UN World Food Programme Shifts Strategy Amid US Aid Cuts
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Exclusive: UN plans to halve rations to Rohingya refugees without urgent funding
The United Nations has warned it will have to cut monthly food rations to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from $12.50 to $6 next month, unless it can raise funds to avert a measure that would worsen hunger in the world's largest refugee settlement.
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World community must work on UN Rohingya food aid cut
THE United Nations’ sudden and drastic reduction in monthly food aid, by 52 per cent, could be devastating for more than a million of the Rohingyas now sheltered in Bangladesh. The World Food Programme on March 5 announced that it would reduce its allocation for food for the Rohingyas in Bangladesh from $12.
Rohingya refugee food aid to be halved from next month: UN
Rations will be halved for around one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from next month due to a lack of funds, the United Nations food agency has said.
UN's food agency WFP closes southern African bureau amid funding cuts
The United Nations' World Food Programme, which gets much of its funding from the United States, is closing its southern African bureau due to funding constraints, the agency said on Monday. WFP gets nearly half of its donations in a typical year from the United States,
U.N. Halves Rations for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh After U.S. Aid Freeze - TaiwanPlus News
The United Nations says severe funding shortages have forced the World Food Programme to halve rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh. After the U.S. froze aid spending, rations for the persecuted Muslim minority will be reduced from US$12.
Food rations for Rohingya refugees to be cut by half: UN
The UN still hopes to raise enough funds to avert a nutrition crisis.Food rations for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will be reduced by half starting next month, the United Nations has warned. What do the cuts mean for the Rohingya refugees?
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