UNITED NATIONS: Shortage of funds has forced the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to suspend a critical programme providing food vouchers to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, the agency announced in a press statement here on Monday.
Under this programme, poor Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt use vouchers to buy food in local shops.
Sources told Dawn that the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was likely to make an urgent appeal to donor countries to increase aid to fund the food programme for Syrian refugees. Without WFP vouchers, many families will go hungry.
For refugees already struggling to survive the harsh winter, the consequences of halting this assistance will be devastating.
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