Malnutrition in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp after US aid cuts

Malnutrition in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp after US aid cuts

A UN official warns that hundreds of thousands in the sprawling camp are "slowly starving".

USAID funding cut: Refugees in Kakuma camp face severe food, water shortages

US Aid Cuts Leave 300,000 Refugees in Kenya on Brink of Malnutrition

The United Nations has issued a stark warning as hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kenya face severe hunger, following major funding cuts by the United States that have slashed food rations to historic lows. Felix Okech, head of refugee operations for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Kenya, said the situation in camps like Kakuma is deteriorating rapidly: “If we have a protracted situation where this is what we can manage, then basically we …

Children fill Kenya’s refugee wards as starvation crisis deepens

Hundreds of thousands of people are slowly starving in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels, the BBC cited a United Nations official as saying. Malnourished children, filling a 30-bed ward at Kakuma’s Amusait Hospital, are a clear indication that the impact of food ration cuts is beginning to hit the refugees hard. A home to an estimated 300,000 refugees, Kakuma has been a haven to people wh…

Starvation alert as children fill Kenya refugee ward after US aid cuts

Hundreds of thousands of people are “slowly starving” in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels, a United Nations official has told the BBC. The impact is starkly visible at a hospital in the sprawling Kakuma camp in the north-west of the East African nation. It is home to roughly 300,000 refugees who have fled strife in countries across Africa and the Middle East. Emaciated children fill a 30…