GENEVA: The United Nations has released $110 million from an emergency fund to help neglected crises around the world, including Sudan, after donors like the United States ordered major cuts.
\nThe UN forecasts that funding levels, which were dwindling long before US President Donald Trump ordered foreign aid frozen in January, are projected to drop to a record low this year.
\nThe Trump administration announced last month it was canceling nearly 10,000 foreign aid grants and contracts worth almost $60 billion, ending about 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development global work.
\nOther donors like Britain have also announced cuts as countries face growing pressure to boost defense spending.
\n\u201cFor countries battered by conflict, climate change and economic turmoil, brutal funding cuts don\u2019t mean that humanitarian needs disappear,\u201d said Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
\nThe UN is seeking $45 billion in 2025 to help around 185 million people fleeing conflict and battling starvation in what Fletcher described as \u201can unprecedented level of suffering.\u201d So far it has received just 5 percent of this.
\nThe money released from the Central Emergency Response Fund will go toward underfunded and neglected crises across Africa, Asia and Latin America, the UN statement said. Around a third of the money will go support Sudan, where nearly two years of civil war has triggered a huge displacement of people and a hunger crisis, and neighboring Chad which has taken in more than a million Sudanese refugees.
\nOther recipients include Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Niger and Somalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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