Persecuted Rohingya get reprieve from White House aid freeze
by editors@theworld.org (Patrick Winn) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6V25D)
President Donald Trump's foreign aid freeze is putting US-backed programs across Asia in peril. But the new White House has made an exception for aid to at least one group: the Rohingya. Most live in refugee camps in Bangladesh, having fled a military purge in their native country of Myanmar. US food aid to the Rohingya will continue - for now - with Rohingya refugees currently facing new threats to their survival. The World's Patrick Winn reports.