Aid Funding Cuts and Malnutrition Force Kakuma Refugees Back to South Sudan

Posted on December 1, 2025December 24, 2025

Men carry bags of food aid at the Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya, March 6, 2018. Picture taken March 6, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya are starving and suffering from malnutrition. The slashing of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in early 2025 has led to a 70% decrease in funding for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The WFP has been forced to cut the refugees’ rations to 30% of their minimum recommended amount a person should eat to stay healthy, leaving 45% of South Sudanese, the largest group of refugees, without food assistance….

U.N. Faces Record Humanitarian Aid Shortfall — but Not for Ukrainians

Structural Violence international aid racism refugees Structural violence

Posted on August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

Important article about a just published UN report that describes the structurally racist responses to global humanitarian crises. Farnaz Fassihi reminds us that as war, global heating/drought, COVID-19, and longstanding structural violence have grossly increased the need for global humanitarian assistance, the responses from the US, Europe, and Japan has focused on Ukraine at the expense of non-white countries of the Global South. Rich countries have exceeded the requests for Ukrainian needs but raised less than a third of the…