UN Food Aid Cuts to Leave Over 1 Million in Myanmar Without Support
- The United Nations World Food Program announced that over 1 million people in Myanmar will lose food assistance due to funding shortfalls starting in April, amid ongoing conflict.
- The WFP stated that 15.2 million people, about one-third of Myanmar's population, cannot meet their daily food needs.
- The cuts will affect nearly 100,000 internally displaced people, including Rohingya communities in Rakhine State, who will lose access to food aid.
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Burma: "Failure to finance, we will be forced to reduce food aid", warns WFP
It is an alarm cry from the World Food Programme in Burma: because of a critical lack of funding, WFP will not be able to assist people displaced by the civil war that has been tearing Asia apart for years. Interview with Michael Dunford, Regional Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) for Asia and the Pacific.
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