Agence France-Presse: U.N. cuts Syria food aid over funding shortfall: official
“The United Nations said on Monday that it has started cutting the food aid it provides to 4.2 million Syrians ravaged by war because of a shortfall in funding. … Around two million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt would also be affected by the WFP’s decision to scale back assistance from next month, [the WFP’s assistant executive director Elisabeth] Rasmusson said…” (10/13).