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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Evelyne Musambi

Food rations are halved in one of Africa's largest refugee camps after US aid cuts

Kenya Refugees and Hunger - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Martin Komol sighs as he inspects his cracked, mud-walled house that is one rain away from fully collapsing. Nothing seems to last for him and 300,000 other refugees in this remote Kakuma camp in Kenya — now, not even food rations.

Funding for the U.N. World Food Program has dropped after the Trump administration paused support in March, part of the widespread dismantling of foreign aid by the United States, once the world's biggest donor.

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