South Sudan: Hungry for Help - Refugees in Kenya Feel the Effects of Recent Food Cuts

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Kakuma Refugee Camp — Nyachot squints up at the midday sun above Kakuma Camp as she stirs the daily meal for her family. Before last November, the 34-year-old South Sudanese refugee could cook twice a day. But when the World Food Programme cut rations by 50 per cent that month, she feared for her children's future.

"The food does not even last the two weeks that it should," Nyachot told UNHCR visitors, turning to gaze at her baby son. Like thousands of other women at this camp in north-west Kenya, she relies completely on the rations she receives, in the absence of any other source of income.

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