U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has described humanitarian aid cuts by the United States and other countries as “a crime.”

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as their food rations face drastic cuts amid a funding shortfall, threatening already dire living conditions in the world’s largest refugee settlement.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, during his visit to the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, vowed to do everything in his power to prevent further hardship as drastic aid cuts threaten food supplies and other critical relief efforts.

Amid fighting in Rakhine between Arakan Army and armed forces, immediate “dignified return” for refugees was difficult, he added.

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,

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.

The leader of the United Nations and the chief of Bangladesh’s interim government were joined by about 100,000 Rohingya refugees for iftar – the meal to break the fast at sundown during Ramadan – at the Ukhia camp in Cox’s Bazar on Friday.

UN chief Antonio Guterres said Friday the organisation would do "everything" to prevent food rations being cut for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.