MORE than one million people in war-torn Myanmar will be cut off from food assistance due to critical funding shortfalls, the United Nations food agency said today.

The World Food Programme said the distribution of most food rations in Myanmar would end in April, even as the country faces a desperate humanitarian crisis caused by bitter fighting between the military government and powerful rebel militias. 

The WFP said it would need $60 million (£46.3m) to continue food assistance in Myanmar and called on its partners to identify additional funding.