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World Food Programme (WFP) acting Executive Director Carl Skau has reaffirmed its commitment to mobilising food aid for 1.3 million Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh, saying the crisis remains one of the Rome-based UN agency’s top agenda.

The acting WFP chief made the comments when he called on Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday at a hotel in the Italian capital, said the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing.

The meeting focused primarily on the ongoing Rohingya crisis, famine situations in Gaza and Sudan, and the growing challenges in mobilising funds to combat global hunger affecting tens of millions.

Skau praised Prof Yunus for his leadership over the past 15 months, particularly his unwavering efforts to bring international attention back to the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

Both leaders emphasised the urgent need for increased funding to support the Rohingyas residing in camps in Bangladesh.

Skau commended the September 30 high-level UN meeting on the Rohingya issue -- convened at Prof Yunus’s Prof

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