World Food Programme forced to suspend food voucher scheme to refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt
A funding crisis has forced the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) to suspend food vouchers to more than 1.7m Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, leaving hundreds of thousands of displaced families facing a "disastrous" winter and increasing the risk of further instability in the region.
Since the conflict began three years ago, the WFP has been bringing food to millions of people inside the country and hundreds of thousands more in neighbouring states.
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