The United Nation's World Food Programme warned on Sunday that refugees in East and West Africa faced smaller food rations due to a surge in demand and insufficient funding.
"We are being forced to make the heartbreaking decision to cut food rations for refugees who rely on us for their survival," said WFP executive director David Beasley.In West Africa - specifically Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger - WFP had"significantly" reduced rations. It said more than two-thirds of the population required humanitarian assistance, with 8.3 million people, including refugees, expected to face"severe acute hunger" this year.The war in Ukraine has significantly worsened the global refugee crisis and the risk of famine, not only creating six million additional refugees as civilians flee conflict zones, but in pushing up commodity prices, especially grain.
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