{"id":203525,"date":"2025-07-29T15:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-protests-erupt-at-kakuma-refugee-camp-in-kenya-following-aid-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:39:07","slug":"kenya-protests-erupt-at-kakuma-refugee-camp-in-kenya-following-aid-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-protests-erupt-at-kakuma-refugee-camp-in-kenya-following-aid-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Protests Erupt At Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya Following Aid Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em> Violent protests broke out at one of Kenya&#8217;s largest refugee camps on Monday, humanitarian sources said, with unconfirmed reports of at least one death, following months of increased tensions over aid cuts. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;One person is dead, two police officers are injured,&#8221; the Department of Refugee Services (DRS) told news agencies, warning that pressure was mounting over the struggling aid system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">The refugees also fought with the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;They have burned the world food station,&#8221; he added, referring to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507290470.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent protests broke out at one of Kenya&#8217;s largest refugee camps on Monday, humanitarian sources said, with unconfirmed reports of at least one death, following months of increased tensions over aid cuts. &#8220;One person is dead, two police officers are injured,&#8221; the Department of Refugee Services (DRS) told news agencies, warning that pressure was mounting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":203526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7828,6835,7210,16290,1795,4688,430,257,5253,6765,254],"class_list":["post-203525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-camp","tag-cuts","tag-erupt","tag-kakuma","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-refugee","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}