UN refugee agency chief ‘extremely worried’ about funding

The governer of the U.N. refugee agency conveyed on Monday that the organisation was dealing with one of the most traumatic moments in its history, with some 110 million people displaced around the world and a prominent and extremely painful funding shortfall happening.  “The task with which you have entrusted UNHCR is at one of its most tough situations in our history,” Filippo Grandi conveyed the organisation’s Executive Committee at a meeting in Geneva. “The world is surprisingly getting divided unstoppably, fragmented and inward-looking,” he added passionately. The organisation encountered a $650 million funding shortfall this year and the outlook for 2024 is “even more worrying”, he said.