What I saw at a maternity ward in Kenya after the U.S. cut off food and foreign aid ^76.3%

MPR News - By Anna Maria Barry-Jester - 12/26/2025, 5:38 PM

In August, I traveled to Kakuma, Kenya, to try to understand what happened when the U.S. cut off food to the world’s third-largest refugee camp. Soon after President Donald Trump froze foreign aid on his first day in office, my colleague Brett Murphy and I began hearing from government experts. We learned that despite explicit promises... more