GENEVA, Oct 9 — The head of the UN refugee agency said today that the organisation was facing one of the most difficult moments in its history, with some 110 million people displaced around the world and a major funding shortfall.

"The task with which you have entrusted UNHCR is at one of its most difficult moments in our history,” Filippo Grandi told the organisation’s Executive Committee at a meeting in Geneva. "The world is increasingly divided, fragmented and inward-looking,” he said.

The organisation faces a US$650 million (RM3.08 billion) funding shortfall this year and the outlook for 2024 is "even more worrying”, he added. — Reuters