The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday said it has shed about 5,000 jobs this year after President Donald Trump, world’s top donor, slashed foreign aid.

AFP quoted agency’s chief Filippo Grandi as saying that the cuts constituted more than a quarter of the agency’s workforce, with more to come – and no country or sector left unscathed.

“Critical programmes and lifesaving activities have to be stopped, gender-based violence prevention work, psychosocial support to survivors of torture, stopped," he said

“Schools were closed, food assistance decreased, cash grants cut, resettlement ground to a halt. This is what happens when you slash funding by over $1 billion in a matter of weeks," he further said.

He further said that the humanitarian system was facing “po

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