UN agency to cut back on Syria assistance

Appeal for cThe UN’s food agency is cutting back on assistance to thousands of Syrian refugees after an appeal for a ceasefire to enable Syrians feed themselves went unheeded, World Food Programme (WFP) executive director Ertharin Cousin said.easefire so Syrians could feed selves went unheeded

The WFP appealed in May for a humanitarian pause in fighting in Syria to let farmers harvest a bumper wheat crop in the country’s north-east, an Islamic State movement stronghold, and bring it to markets in Syria’s west, including Aleppo and Homs.

Cousin said because there was no ceasefire, the wheat is being stored at the farming belt and will likely be sold in Turkey.