If it keeps providing aid to 5.5 million people, the agency will “run out of food completely by October”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ROME - The UN food agency said on Tuesday it will slash aid to Syrians in need of basic food supplies by around half due to a lack of funding.
It said it took the decision “after exhausting all other options” and planned to stretch its “extremely limited” resources by prioritising “three million Syrians who are unable to make it from one week to the next without food assistance”. “Instead of scaling up or even keeping pace with increasing needs, we’re facing the bleak scenario of taking assistance away from people, right when they need it the most,” WFP representative in Syria Kenn Crossley said in the statement.
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