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.

The influx of refugees from Sudan brought international aid organisations to eastern Chad, a region that is almost entirely cut off from any infrastructure. Feelings on the ground are mixed.

Almost 12 million people have fled since the outbreak of the war in Sudan. About a million of them have sought refuge in neighbouring Chad. The humanitarian situation there is rapidly deteriorating. An eyewitness report.