World Food Program to suspend aid to Syria as funds dry up

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World Food Program to suspend aid to Syria as funds dry up

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Food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees will be suspended because the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) has run out of money to support them. The aid cut will affect refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon who get vouchers to exchange for food in local shops. If WFP does not receive additional funds, food aid in Syria, which has been caught in a civil war, will stop by February 2015.

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