United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has visited Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as their food rations face drastic cuts next month, threatening already dire living conditions in the world’s largest refugee settlement.
As a result of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) announcing potential cuts to emergency food supplies following the shutdown of USAID operations, Guterres's Friday visit to the border district of Cox's Bazar is seen as crucial. Due to a lack of funding, the World Food Program (WFP) may be forced to reduce the monthly food vouchers it provides to the Rohingya from $12.50 to just $6 beginning in April, raising concerns about increased hunger in the overcrowded camps. Recommended Stories
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In 2024, the WFP received $4.4 billion out of its $9.7 billion budget, but President Donald Trump has reduced Washington's funding for international aid. Until recently, the United States was the largest donor of aid to Rohingya refugees. Children in the camps had the highest rates of malnutrition since 2017, according to UNICEF, with admissions for severe malnutrition treatment rising 27% in February compared to the previous year. ‘Simply going to starve’
"Whatever we have now is insufficient." If that’s halved, we are simply going to starve,” said Mohammed Sabir, a 31-year-old refugee from Myanmar who has lived in a Cox’s Bazar camp since 2017.
