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Less drugs, less care, less food: how aid cuts have hit Uganda’s 2m refugees

Africa’s largest refugee population has seen rations and healthcare slashed as funding levels dropThe skies are gloomy over the wattle-and-mud houses of Kiryandongo refugee settlement, home to more than 167,000 people. Spread across an undulating plateau, the crowded camp, 120 miles (200km) north of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, draws new arrivals every day as conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan add to the displacement toll. Of nearly 50,000 refugees who have arrived in Uganda since January, more than 1,000 have come…

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