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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Evelyne Musambi,Kareem Chehayeb and Jamey Keaten

As the UN turns 80, its crucial humanitarian aid work faces a clouded future

At a refugee camp in northern Kenya, Aujene Cimanimpaye waits as a hot lunch of lentils and sorghum is ladled out for her and her nine children — all born while she has received United Nations assistance since fleeing her violence-wracked home in Congo in 2007.

“We cannot go back home because people are still being killed,” the 41-year-old said at the Kakuma camp, where the U.N. World Food Program and U.N. refugee agency help support more than 300,000 refugees.

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