00:01As monthly food assistance fell to as little as $7 per person, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh's
00:08camps fear that desperation would deepen. Hosna Ara, a widowed mother of three who fled
00:14Rakhine State after her husband was killed by the Iraqi army, said the $7 credited to
00:19her ration card wasn't enough to feed her children.
00:42The World Food Programme, which oversees food distribution for about 1.2 million Rohingya
00:48refugees in camps in Cox's Bazar and on Basanchar Island, has been forced to cut assistance
00:55to around 23 cents per day because of a severe funding shortfall. Rohingya community leaders
01:01said the latest cuts could drive rising desperation, particularly among young people, fueling crime,
01:08including human trafficking, as smugglers target those seeking a way out of the barbed wire
01:13fenced camps.
01:39The WFP said the reduction was part of their fenced camps.
01:43It was part of a needs-based targeting exercise that it described as standard global practice.
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