Refugees at the Dadaab camp in northern Kenya. The UN WFP said Tuesday
December 30, 2014 it will resume full food rations to refugees in Kenya
in January 2015 following a successful appeal to foreign donors. AFP
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday it will resume
full food rations to refugees in Kenya in January 2015 following a
successful appeal to foreign donors.
In November 2014, WFP announced it had been forced to slash food handouts to nearly half a million people living in two camps in northern Kenya and who have fled conflict in Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.
"Refugees
depend on food assistance for their survival and we are relieved that
we can now once again meet the full food needs of refugees in Dadaab and
Kakuma," said Thomas Hansson, WFP's Acting Country Director for Kenya.
The
Dadaab camp complex in Kenya's northeast is home to one of the world's
largest refugee populations, housing over 350,000 Somali refugees.
The Kakuma camp in the arid north-western Turkana region mainly houses refugees from South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia.
WFP
said the $45 million in fresh contributions had come from the European
Union, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Saudi Arabia and the United States,
adding that rations would only be cut by 40 per cent in December 2014
and return to normal levels in January 2015.
WFP spends almost $10 million a month to hand out the 9,700 tonnes of food needed to feed some 500,000 refugees in Keny
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