Starvation alert as children fill Kenya refugee ward after US aid cuts | BBC News

Hundreds of thousands of people are "slowly starving" in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels, a United Nations official has told the BBC.

The impact is starkly visible at a hospital in the sprawling Kakuma camp in the north-west of the East African nation, home to roughly 300,000 refugees who fled strife in countries across Africa and the Middle East.

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Post from BBC News on June 12, 2025

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