On Friday 2 February, the Commission announced that it had allocated more than €56 million in humanitarian aid for 2024 to help people in distress in Asia and the Pacific. These funds will help people affected by the main humanitarian crises underway in the region, and will strengthen disaster preparedness in a region exposed to natural hazards, it stressed in a press release.
Bangladesh will receive €26.5 million and Myanmar €19.2 million to help them deal with the humanitarian...