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SUNS # 10470 Friday  26 June 2026


 
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Finance: ODA set to further fall, hitting lowest level since 2014, says OECD (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Net official development assistance (ODA) is projected to fall again by 6.9% in 2026, marking a third consecutive year of decline and bringing ODA to its lowest level since 2014, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

UN: Humanitarian food aid plunges 59% as global acute hunger surges (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Despite escalating needs, humanitarian assistance to the food sectors in crisis contexts has declined by an estimated 59 percent between 2022 and 2025, returning to levels last seen in 2016-2017, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

UN: Dwindling aid devastates Rohingyas in world's largest refugee camp (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
Nearly nine years after the violent persecution of the Rohingya minority population in Myanmar and the following mass exodus of refugees, over 1.2 million Rohingya currently reside in neighbouring Bangladesh, where they face immense challenges.


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