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The UN World Food Programme said it will be forced to halve food assistance for the world’s biggest refugee camp because of “severe funding shortfalls”.
Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh hosts more than a million Rohingya refugees, mainly women and children, who have fled violence in Myanmar.
Legally prevented from working, they are heavily reliant on aid and suffer from widespread malnutrition.
From next month each will now have just $6 per month in food rations, down from $12.50.
Last year the US contributed more than half the funds for the Rohingya humanitarian response, but food cuts in Cox’s Bazar are not the usual story of Trump rug-pulling.
The World Food Programme said the funding shortfall was due to a lack of donations rather than USAid cuts, and added that US support for food aid for the Rohingya continues.
That said, the US might previously have been relied on to fill the gap, but not anymore.
