The Rohingya are on the brink of starvation
During his four-day visit to Bangladesh in March, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visited Cox’s Bazar, the site of one of the world’s most overlooked humanitarian crisis. Over a million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar are teetering on the edge of catastrophe. Now, their fragile existence has made even more precarious by the Trump administration’s abrupt shutdown of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding.
USAID, historically the largest donor to humanitarian causes, spent about $40 billion a year globally. This has been slashed by the Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire and senior adviser to Mr. Trump, Elon Musk.… Seguir leyendo »