Summary
Some 750,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon will have their food aid cut by 50 percent next month as the United Nations implements severe cost-saving strategies in the face of funding shortfalls.
Lebanon has taken in over a million Syrian refugees, equivalent to a quarter of the population before the war broke out in Syria.
According to a progress report on the response to the Syria refugee crisis issued by the U.N., 45 percent of refugees in Lebanon are living in substandard shelters.
The agency has already cut $100 rent assistance provided to 43,000 Syrian Palestinian refugees that are living in Lebanon.
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