Short of cash, UN cuts Syria refugees' rations again

The World Food Program, running short of cash, will halve the value of food vouchers given to Syrian refugees in Lebanon this month and may cut all help for 440,000 Syrians in Jordan next month, the UN agency said on Wednesday.

"Just when we thought things couldn't get worse, we are forced yet again to make yet more cuts," Muhannad Hadi, WFP's Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, said in a statement. "Refugees were already struggling to cope with what little we could provide."