Myanmar Rohingya refugees despair over looming food aid cuts


COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Feb 18, 2023 (AFP): Looming cuts to food aid will have a "devastating" effect on the estimated million Rohingya living in sprawling Bangladeshi refugee camps, community leaders from the stateless minority said Saturday.

The UN World Food Programme announced Friday it would cut back its assistance for the first time since a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that drove huge numbers of Rohingya out of their homes and across the border.

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