LONDON: The UK will provide \u00a327 million ($36 million) to help Rohingya refugees who have fled war and food shortages in Myanmar.<\/p>\n
The aid package will provide food, shelter, clean water and other life-saving services to half a million people living in camps in neighboring Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
The funding was announced by the UK\u2019s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Monday as a UN conference on the Muslim minority group took place in New York.<\/p>\n
The US also announced $60 million in assistance for Rohingya and other Myanmar minority refugees \u201cwho have been victims of repression and violence,\u201d and fled their country.<\/p>\n
The UK aid will be delivered through various UN agencies including the World Food Program and UNICEF, along with other aid groups.<\/p>\n
The money will also go toward reproductive health services for 175,000 women and girls, and to support survivors of sexual, physical and mental harm.<\/p>\n
Cooper said that the funding would also help to support Bangladeshi host communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UK will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that those displaced by violence have the support, protection, dignity and opportunities they deserve,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The funding comes as the UN warns of a fresh hunger crisis in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state, where fighting is raging between the military-led government and a group known as the Arakan Army. <\/p>\n
More than a million Rohingya live in refugee camps in Bangladesh after vast numbers fled a brutal military crackdown in Rakhine in 2017.<\/p>\n
The refugee crisis has been exacerbated by cuts in international aid, particularly by the US, which shut down the US Agency for International Development earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The UK says that it has now provided more than \u00a3447 million since 2017 to help the Rohingya, and is continuing to work with Bangladesh to \u201cpromote stability and hope\u201d for the Rohingya community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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