Western powers were quick to back military action in the Middle East. Now food aid has run out they urgently need to step up the humanitarian response
Western governments are tiring of Muslim wars. They are also tiring of their victims. The UN is reported to have run out of money to relieve the refugee tide now spreading across the Middle East. Some four million people are living in camps reliant on the UN's World Food Programme, not to mention other camps caused by wars in Sudan, Somalia and the Central African Federation. A million Syrians have fled to Lebanon and a million to Jordan, creating new desert cities of indolence and disease.
Now the cash vouchers that supply liquidity to the camps and sustain food supplies are to end. Some £500m has been pumped into the Jordanian camps by the UN alone and money has run out. Food rations are to be cut and host governments, facing an apparently ceaseless human migration, are starting to close their borders. The means by which the world relieves such suffering are seizing up.
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