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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Samuel Okiror in Kampala

Trump’s aid cuts blamed as food rations stopped for a million refugees in Uganda

People cook in large vats on makeshift fires on dusty ground outside
People cook maize porridge, known locally as posho, donated by USAID at Uganda’s Bidi Bidi camp, one of Africa’s largest with more than 250,000 refugees. Photograph: Stephen Wandera/AP

Food rations for a million people in Uganda have been cut off completely this week amid a funding crisis at the United Nations World Food Programme, raising fears that refugees will now be pushed back into countries at war.

The WFP in Uganda warned two weeks ago that $50m (£37m) was urgently needed to help refugees and asylum seekers fleeing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Sudan.

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