Nairobi: Food rations to more than 400,000 refugees in Kenya have been halved due to severe funding shortages, and existing supplies will run out completely at the end of February, the UN said on Tuesday.
Kenya hosts 434,000 refugees from 21 countries, mainly from war-torn neighbouring South Sudan and Somalia, in two overcrowded camps on its northern borders.
“We are very worried about the impact of this on the refugees,” Challiss McDonough, a spokeswoman for the World Food Programme (WFP), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“There is a chance, particularly if (the food ration cuts) go on for a long time, of health consequences, of deterioration in people’s nutritional status.”
11 March 2017UN humanitarian chief says 20 million people in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria face starvation and famine.
Sunday 12 March 2017Thousands of female Romanian farm workers are suffering horrendous abuse
And how could it hope to when it's made of member states like Hungary and the UK?*bump* again
Five myths about the refugee crisis
Predictably the EU does not come out of this looking exactly untarnished.
Yeh. But as below, at a member state level, so above at an eu level.I would paint a picture of much more collective responsibility than that.
ASSAMAKA, Niger (AP) — From this isolated frontier post deep in the sands of the Sahara, the expelled migrants can be seen coming over the horizon by the hundreds. They look like specks in the distance, trudging miserably across some of the world’s most unforgiving terrain in the blistering sun.
They are the ones who made it out alive.
Here in the desert, Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, stranding them without food or water and forcing them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under temperatures of up to 48 degrees Celsius
HeartbreakingMore evidence if any more was needed that the EU is directly responsible for the plight of these people.
The European Union has condemned rescue boats picking up drowning refugees in the Mediterranean, in a dramatic hardening of the bloc’s border policy that brings it in line with the continent’s anti-immigration populists.
After a summit in Brussels EU leaders backed the approach of Italy’s new populist government to the boats, suggesting the vessels should stay away and could be breaking the law by picking up those in distress.
A communiqué issued by the European Council warns the vessels’ operators that they should defer to the Libyan coastguard, which NGOs say amounts to “deliberately condemning vulnerable people to be trapped in Libya, or die at sea”....
Jesus wept. Hate to see the way Fortress Europe is heading.
The Aquarius is the last private rescue ship operating in the area used for crossings from Libya to Europe. It has been at the centre of a row about Europe’s approach to migration since Italy refused to allow it to dock on its shores in June. Last month it spent 19 days docked in the French port of Marseille after Gibraltar revoked its flag. It set sail again last week after first acquiring Panamanian recognition.
On Monday Panamanian authorities revoked the Aquarius vessel’s registration in a move described by Médecins Sans Frontières and SOS Méditerranée, which operated the vessel, as “a major blow” to its humanitarian mission.
They claimed that Panama was forced to revoke the registration after coming under pressure from the Italian government. Italy’s anti-immigration interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has denied that his government was responsible. Writing on Twitter on Sunday he claimed he did not know the telephone dialling code for Panama.
worthless cunt says}...he did not know the telephone dialling code for Panama.[/quote said:but I bet he knows someone who does.