More and more people are coming to get the basic necessities, says the founder of a volunteer group that helps the poor and homeless.

Lebanon is one of nine Arab nations using an algorithm-powered poverty assessment formula funded by the World Bank that ranks welfare applicants according to dozens of different data points.

An official says the decision was taken after an investigation concluded that landowners, local authorities, members of the security forces and humanitarian workers were involved in stealing aid.

Rescue work has been hindered by the political fractures in the country, which has been war on-and-off and lacked a government with nationwide reach since a Nato-backed uprising toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

Paris and Rabat have had a difficult relationship in recent years notably over the issue of Western Sahara, which Morocco wants France to recognise as Moroccan.

After an earthquake killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria, Syria allowed the UN to use those two border crossings from Turkey to dispatch aid.

Hun Sen has brushed off Western concern about the election's credibility, determined to prevent any obstacle in his carefully calibrated transition to his anointed successor and eldest son, Hun Manet.

While some relief supplies have trickled in, aid agencies report almost insurmountable hurdles to their work.

They say the amount is secondary as the more important issue is to be given some help.

Anwar Ibrahim announces the additions in tabling the budget for a second reading today.

Mohamad Hasan says efforts are being made to trace those involved.

This raises to US$2.1 billion the total of US aid provided to the Rohingya people since August 2017.