Distraught Myanmar relief camp dwellers received final handouts from the World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday as the UN agency begins halting aid to a million people in the country because funding has dried up.President Donald Trump’s slashing of the US aid budget has contributed to “critical funding shortfalls” for WFP, forcing it to make sweeping cuts in Myanmar, which has been racked by a four-year, multi-sided civil war.“I pray every night that this news is not true,” said Byar Mee, who on Tuesday received the last of her monthly payouts worth around $50, which she uses to feed her family of five.
“I pray to God that the donors are blessed and are able to help us again,” she told AFP in a camp outside the northeastern city of Myitkyina. “Please help us and pity us.”Since the military toppled a civilian government in. . .
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