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U.N. refugee boss warns of 'severe cuts' without immediate new funding

FILE PHOTO: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi attends a news conference with Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 6, 2022. REUTERS/Blair Gable

The U.N. refugee agency will have to make "severe cuts", increasing the hardships of those who have been driven from their homes, unless it gets immediate extra funding, its chief said on Monday.

The war in Ukraine has propelled millions of people to flee, and there are now more than 100 million people forcibly displaced in the world, causing UNHCR's budget to balloon to over $10 billion.

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