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UN World Food Program to cut food aid for over 1 million people in Myanmar
The United Nations food agency said on Friday that more than 1 million people in the war-torn nation of Myanmar will be cut off from food assistance due to critical funding shortfalls.
World Food Programme to cut aid for one million people in Myanmar
More than a million people in Myanmar will be cut off from life-saving food assistance provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) from next month because of critical shortfalls in funding, the latest cut in humanitarian support from the U.
Funding cuts force WFP to stop food aid to Myanmar
Funding shortfalls will require a cut in monthly food vouchers in the camps from $12.50 to $6.00 per person at the camps, the WFP announced this month. The cuts inside Myanmar will come just ahead of the "lean season" between the planting and harvesting of rice, maize and vegetables, which lasts from July to September.
UN food agency to cut aid for 1 million people in Myanmar
UN food agency to cut aid for 1 million people in Myanmar - World Food Programme has said funding shortfall would mean cuts to its operations in Afghanistan, Africa and refugee camps in Bangladesh, le
UN's food agency WFP to cut aid for about a million people in Myanmar
More than a million people in Myanmar will be cut off from lifesaving food assistance provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) from next month because of critical shortfalls in funding, the latest cut in humanitarian support from the UN agency.
'Funding shortfalls' force WFP to cut food aid in war-torn Myanmar
The World Food Programme will be forced to stop providing vital food aid in Myanmar, "because of a shortfall in funding" says Michael Dumford, head of operations for the agency in the war-torn country.
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Funding cuts force WFP to stop food aid to one million in Myanmar
The World Food Programme will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because of ...