Fears for refugees health in Kenya as food aid rations halved
NAIROBI- Food rations to more than 400,000 refugees in Kenya have been halved due to severe funding shortages, and existing supplies will run out completely at the end of February, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Kenya hosts 434,000 refugees from 21 countries, mainly from war-torn neighbouring South Sudan and Somalia, in two overcrowded camps on its northern borders.
"We are very worried about the impact of this on the refugees," Challiss McDonough, a spokeswoman for the World Food Programme (WFP), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"There is a chance, particularly if (the food ration cuts) go on for a long time, of health consequences, of deterioration in people's nutritional status."
