Alarm grows over WFP plan to cut food aid for Rohingya refugees

The World Food Programme has been operating in the camps since 2017 when the Rohingya were forced out of Myanmar [File: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

Alarm is growing over the World Food Programme’s (WFP) plan to cut food aid to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh because of a severe shortfall in funding.

The WFP, the United Nations food agency, has said it will need to cut rations to the refugees next month because of a lack of funds.