{"id":230564,"date":"2026-04-17T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-funding-cuts-push-refugee-families-in-egypt-to-the-brink\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:42:13","slug":"egypt-funding-cuts-push-refugee-families-in-egypt-to-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-funding-cuts-push-refugee-families-in-egypt-to-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Funding Cuts Push Refugee Families in Egypt to the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Critical underfunding has forced UNHCR to withdraw financial aid from thousands of vulnerable refugee families, with more due to be cut off this month unless urgent funding arrives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">A deepening global funding crisis is forcing UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to scale back critical financial assistance for refugees in Egypt, leaving tens of thousands of families struggling to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Among those hardest hit are families who fled the war in Sudan, now entering its fourth year and continuing to drive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170187.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical underfunding has forced UNHCR to withdraw financial aid from thousands of vulnerable refugee families, with more due to be cut off this month unless urgent funding arrives. A deepening global funding crisis is forcing UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to scale back critical financial assistance for refugees in Egypt, leaving tens of thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":230565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,10134,7210,4697,415,9255,6141,257,6354,6765,254],"class_list":["post-230564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brink","tag-cuts","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-families","tag-funding","tag-news","tag-push","tag-refugee","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}