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Cuts to international aid funding have plunged Kakuma, one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Kenya, into a worsening humanitarian crisis. With food rations reduced to a fraction of the minimum requirement, residents face an impossible choice.

Increased demand and funding shortfalls meant that about two thirds of people in dire need went without humanitarian assistance last year. Experts from the German aid organisation Welthungerhilfe analyse the UN’s effort to close this gap.

Only about a quarter of the world’s planned aid projects were financed in October. The consequences of that can be seen, for example, on the border between Chad and Sudan: The global community is violating its own humanitarian principles.