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Tension in Kakuma as refugees protest reduced food ration

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Some of the refugees flee the Kakuma camp after clashing over food and water. [Bakari Ang'ela, Standard]

Tension remained high in the Kakuma refugee camp in the Turkana West sub-county following protests over the reduction of food rations.

Hundreds of refugees protested the move by the World Food Programme (WFP) to reduce the food ratio, which they said had exposed thousands of families to hunger.

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