United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had an iftar with Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh on Friday and raised serious concerns over aid cuts for more than one million people of the ethnic community who fled persecution in Myanmar.

The Trump administration official overseeing the dismantling of the main U.S. foreign aid agency proposed phasing out help for crisis-torn Lebanon and the Rohingya, the world's largest stateless population,

The IOM said last week that the US freeze was “impacting our staff, operations and the people we serve”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is set to arrive in Dhaka on Thursday for a four-day visit. During his stay, he will visit Rohingya camps in Chattogram, where he will take part in an Iftar with 100,000 Rohingya refugees displaced from Myanmar.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday denounced the humanitarian aid cuts by the United States and other countries in Europe.

The United Nations will do all it can to help prevent food rations being cut for Rohingyas in camps in Bangladesh, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday during a visit to the world’s largest refugee settlement.

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has called on the international community to urgently provide humanitarian support for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in dire conditions in Bangladeshi refugee camps.