{"id":205685,"date":"2025-08-28T05:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cut-to-the-bone-the-cost-of-ration-cuts-and-delivery-delays-in-kenyas-refugee-camps\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:55:27","slug":"kenya-cut-to-the-bone-the-cost-of-ration-cuts-and-delivery-delays-in-kenyas-refugee-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cut-to-the-bone-the-cost-of-ration-cuts-and-delivery-delays-in-kenyas-refugee-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Cut to the Bone &#8211; the Cost of Ration Cuts and Delivery Delays in Kenya&#8217;s Refugee Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Oxford, United Kingdom \u2014 It is almost impossible to survive on so little. Hunger is now widespread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\">Humanitarian aid is in crisis. In 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/humanitarianaction.info\/document\/global-humanitarian-overview-2024\/article\/response-plans-overview-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out of the 300 million people assessed to be in need, only 181 million were targeted to receive aid<\/a> &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/humanitarianaction.info\/document\/global-humanitarian-overview-2024\/article\/response-plans-overview-2024#page-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lowest percentage ever<\/a>. Despite these gaps, the United States announced this year it would scale back its contributions &#8211; accounting for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewhumanitarian.org\/analysis\/2025\/03\/04\/humanitarian-aid-extreme-donor-dependency-global-charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">43% of global humanitarian funding<\/a> &#8211; and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewhumanitarian.org\/newsletter\/2025\/02\/26\/inklings-whats-humanitarian-gameplan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major donors<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/publications\/2025\/06\/cuts-in-official-development-assistance_e161f0c5\/full-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">followed suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">To understand how unpredictable aid&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508270001.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>Oxford, United Kingdom \u2014 It is almost impossible to survive on so little. Hunger is now widespread. Humanitarian aid is in crisis. In 2024 out of the 300 million people assessed to be in need, only 181 million were targeted to receive aid &#8211; the lowest percentage ever. Despite these gaps, the United States announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":205686,"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":[258,256,33330,5170,6629,8021,7210,6190,8532,4688,430,6097,257,16498,6765,254],"class_list":["post-205685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bone","tag-camps","tag-cost","tag-cut","tag-cuts","tag-delays","tag-delivery","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-ration","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\/205685","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=205685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}