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

  • By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press

More than 300,000 refugees in the Kakuma camp in remote Kenya have had their food rations cut in half. And now the monthly cash transfers to buy proteins and vegetables to supplement them are gone. Funding for the U.N. World Food Program has dropped after the Trump administration paused support in March. It's part of the widespread dismantling of foreign aid by the United States, once the world's biggest donor. Some refugees are surviving on one meal a day. Some malnourished babies arrive too late at a local hospital and die within hours. Workers fear they will see more.