Dhaka, March 28, 2025 (AFP) - UN halts plan to halve refugee rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh

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The UN's food agency said Friday it had halted its plans to halve rations for the million-plus Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh after a successful appeal for more foreign aid. Huge numbers of the persecuted and stateless Rohingya community live in squalid relief camps in Bangladesh, most arriving after fleeing a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar. The World Food Programme said in a letter earlier this month that "severe funding......

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