There is a looming humanitarian disaster unfolding in Kenya, just four months after the US President Donald Trump administration began reevaluating US foreign aid.
While the aid cuts were inevitably going to have devastating effects, particularly in African countries that heavily rely on it, no one could have predicted the predicament refugees in Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps would be facing as of May 2025.
The ripple effect of Washington's decision to cut foreign aid is beginning to be intensely felt, with the two biggest refugee camps in the land on the verge of an economic collapse.
More than 700,000 refugees from across 24 nations now have their fates uncertain due to several factors, with the ability of the refugees to sustain themselves economically being the most worrying issue.