<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">The United States announced on Tuesday $26 million in new humanitarian aid for Rohingya in Bangladesh and elsewhere in that region of Asia.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Around one million members of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community live in relief camps in Bangladesh, many after fleeing a 2017 military crackdown in neighboring Myanmar. The onslaught caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"This new funding allows our humanitarian partners to continue providing life-saving assistance to affected communities on both sides of the Burma Bangladesh border," State Department spokesman Ned Price said, using the old name for Myanmar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the new money raises to $2.1 billion the total of US aid provided to the Rohingya people since August 2017.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The United Nations said Tuesday it needs $876 million to meet the humanitarian needs of the Rohingya in Bangladesh, after dwindling donations forced a cut to their food rations. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>