720,000 refugees at Dadaab and Kakuma in Kenya face reduced food rations due to critical funding shortages, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has revealed.
Noting that the refugees may be affected starting June, the UN agency said that while they have continued to receive support from different donors, they are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with the ever-increasing number of asylum seekers. "This increase in the number of asylum seekers has stretched the needs of refugees, which has, in turn, outstripped the availability of funds," WFP's Deputy Country Director in Kenya, Baimankay Sankoh, said in a statement.
Sankoh revealed that apart from the decline in food assistance, all kinds of cash assistance will also be halted until the funding crisis is resolved. Residents in Turkana receiving food donation from World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday, September 23, 2022.
Twitter WFP WFP revealed that it is facing critical funding shortages, forcing the agency to reduce food assistance to the lowest levels ever recorded.
