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2025-06-10 Africa Subsaharan

Kenya: protests rock Kakuma refugee camp amid US humanitarian aid cuts

[AFRICANEWS] Widespread demonstrations have rocked security in Kakuma refugee camp in north-western Kenya on Monday, with police firing live bullets at the protestors, according to local media.

The protests erupted over food and water shortages in the camp.

According to residents, conditions in the camp have deteriorated significantly, with many struggling to access basic necessities.

The shortages come as humanitarian aid

in Kenya has been reduced following funding cuts from the US Agency for International Development, USAID.

The camp, which is one of the largest in the world, is home to around 200 000 refugees and asylum seekers, according to Amnesty International.

The camp mainly houses refugees from neighbouring South Sudan
Sudan

...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
, Æthiopia and Somalia.

Mama Kayembe, a Congolese refugee in Kakuma Refugee Camp said: "Since (Donald) Trump became (US) president, now Kenyans have shifted all the blame on him. Workers are not getting paid and it is blamed on Trump. No medication in hospital - it's Trump, now we have to pay for school fees and it's Trump, everything is Trump. We are tired of Trump."

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