UN refugee agency plans to cut spending despite growing displacement

AL-Monitor
Sep 1, 2025
FILE PHOTO: A Congolese refugee looks on as a UNHCR volunteer checks on refugees and migrants rescued at open sea and waiting to be transferred to the Moria registration centre at the port of Mytilene on the Lesbos island, Greece March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A Congolese refugee looks on as a UNHCR volunteer checks on refugees and migrants rescued at open sea and waiting to be transferred to the Moria registration centre at the port of Mytilene on the Lesbos island, Greece March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo — Alkis Konstantinidis

GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. refugee agency plans to scale back its budget by nearly a fifth to $8.5 billion even as displacement continues to rise due to crises like the war in Sudan, a copy of its budget showed on Monday.

The Geneva-based agency plans to spend $8.5 billion versus its $10.2 billion 2025 budget amid financial constraints, the document showed.

(Reporting by Emma FargeEditing by Riham Alkousaa)