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Refugees in Kenya impacted by food aid cuts; WFP rolls out new system

Newly arrived Somali refugees wait at the profiling and registration centre in the Dadaab refugee camp, one of Africa's largest refugee camps, in Kenya on March 23, 2023 [Bobb Muriithi/AFP]

The World Food Programme (WFP) has said it will need to drastically cut rations to refugees in Kenya due to reductions in global aid, including major funding cuts from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Residents of the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps were beginning to feel the impact of food aid cuts on Monday as the WFP implemented a new assistance system there in which certain groups are prioritised over others.

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