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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh camps say they are worried that their food rations will be cut by half.
The World Food Program which is the main UN food agency recently announced that cuts to food rations will take effect from April 1 in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, where dozens of camps are inhabited by Rohingya refugees.
Over 700,000 Muslim Rohingya fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar starting in late August 2017 when Myanmar’s military launched a “clearance operation.” Following a military takeover in 2021, the country has been engulfed in an armed conflict widely seen as a civil war.
It was not immediately clear if the WFP’s decision was directly related to US President Donald Trump’s stoppage of most foreign aid and scrapping of the US Agency for International Development, which has greatly hampered the global humanitarian sector.
