The WFP said it would need £46 million to continue food assistance in Myanmar and called on its partners to identify additional funding.

Over a million in Myanmar face food aid cuts due to funding shortages, worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis.

(Reuters) - The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday more than a million people in Myanmar will be cut off from its lifesaving food assistance, starting from April, because of critical shortfalls in funding.

The World Food Programme will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because of "critical funding shortfalls", it said Friday. "More than one million people in Myanmar will be cut off from WFP's lifesaving food assistance starting in April due to critical funding shortfalls,

The World Food Programme will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because of "critical funding

ROME — Aid projects in crisis-hit countries from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa have been suspended and staffing cut after President Donald Trump froze hundreds of millions in annual U.S. funding to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, according to internal FAO documents and employees who spoke to POLITICO.

Funding shortfalls will require a cut in monthly food vouchers in the camps from $12.50 to $6.00 per person at the camps, the WFP announced this month. The cuts inside Myanmar will come just ahead of the "lean season" between the planting and harvesting of rice, maize and vegetables, which lasts from July to September.