WFP is cutting off a million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid.- Photo: AFP
MYITKYINA, (Myanmar): Distraught Myanmar relief camp dwellers received final handouts from the World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday (March 19) as the UN agency begins halting aid to a million people in Myanmar because funding has dried up.
US President Donald Trump’s slashing of the US aid budget has contributed to “critical funding shortfalls” for the WFP, forcing it to make sweeping cuts in Myanmar, which has been racked by a four-year, multi-sided civil war.
