UN Secretary-General Visit Cox's Bazar -2025
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.
Guterres visited the border district of Cox’s Bazar. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced potential cuts to emergency food supplies following the shutdown of USAID operations.
Starting in April, the WFP may be forced to reduce food vouchers for the Rohingya from $12.50 to just $6 per month because of a lack of funding, raising fears of rising hunger in the overcrowded camps.
The United States provided the WFP with $4.4 billion of its $9.7 billion budget in 2024, but Washington’s international aid funding has been slashed under President Donald Trump. Until recently, the US was the top donor for Rohingya refugee aid.
The UN children’s agency UNICEF said youngsters in the camps were experiencing the worst levels of malnutrition since 2017, with admissions for severe malnutrition treatment up 27 percent in February compared with the same month last year.
[ Al Jazeera news]
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Rohingya refugees facilities increased somehow.
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