UN To Cut Food Rations Again For Rohingya Refugees In Bangladesh

euroasiareview
BenarNews
Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Abdur Rah
May 24, 2023

Rohingya children look at food offered at a shop in the Leda refugee camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo Credit: Abdur Rahman/BenarNews

 

The United Nations food agency is reducing rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh for the second time this year citing a funds shortage, a move that refugees fear could push them to the brink of starvation.

Starting June 1, the World Food Program will cut food aid to U.S. $8 a month per person from $10 – after having cut the monthly food ration from $12 in March – marking a total decline of 33% to date this year, a Bangladeshi official confirmed on Tuesday.

Bangladesh: Aid cuts stoke fear of violence in refugee camps

DW
Arafatul Islam
2023 March 9 

The UN has recently cut food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Observers fear that this will lead to severe health problems and increased crime. They say refugees must be allowed to work.

 

There are about 1 million members of the primarily Muslim Rohingya community living in squalid refugee camps in Cox's Bazar on the southeastern coast of Bangladesh.

Aid cuts ‘to leave 100,000 refugees without water’

Morning Star

SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021


PM faces rebellion after launching £4bn raid on overseas budget

TORY foreign aid cuts will leave 100,000 refugees without water and devastate health services for the world’s most vulnerable, campaigners have warned.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was slammed by MPs on all sides for his decision to temporarily reduce foreign aid from 0.7 per cent of national income to 0.5 per cent, breaking a 2019 manifesto committment in the process.

The government claimed that the reduction was reasonable given the economic disruption caused by the pandemic.