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Kakuma, Kenya – 4 June 2025
1. Wide pan of refugees in a queue at the Kakuma Reception Centre kitchen
2. Various of Congolese refugee Aujene Cimanimpaye receiving hot meal for her and her family
3. Cimanimpaye walking into their shared shelter to feed her family
4. Close of Cimanimpaye’s husband looking on
5. Wide of Cimanimpaye serving the food
6. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Aujene Cimanimpaye, Congolese refugee:
“We fled to Uganda and stayed there for 15 years. Including the time we have spent here (in Kenya), it has been 18 years now as refugees. We left Uganda because they said they were done with refugees and whoever had somewhere to go should leave.”
7. Various of refugees queuing up for supplies (soaps, underpants, sanitary towels) at the Kakuma Reception Centre
8. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Aujene Cimanimpaye, Congolese refugee:
“As we have been moving around, we see that the fighting (back in Congo) keeps getting worse. We have no money, I can’t return my family back to the violence, it doesn’t add up going back home to go and live in hiding. How are we going to survive?”
9. Various of Congolese refugee Bahati Musaba hanging clothes outside her house in Kakuma’s Kalobeyei Integrated Setlement
10. Various of Musaba
11. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Bahati Musaba, Congolese refugee:
“In terms of education, I am being assisted. All my children are going to school. We are getting healthcare assistance from the U.N. and all affiliated organizations. In terms of water, we are also being assisted.”
12. Various of Kakuma Reception Centre
STORYLINE:
In northern Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, where U.N. agencies support more than 300,000 refugees with food, water, education and healthcare, 41-year-old Aujene Cimanimpaye receives her lunch portion of lentils and sorghum which she serves to her nine children.
Cimanimpaye fled from Congo in 2009 and lived in Uganda’s Nakivale Refugee Settlement for more than 10 years until conflict over access to refugee allocated farming land forced her to flee further to Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp.
All her children have been born while living under U.N. support at Nakivale and now in Kakuma where she relies on cooked food from the World Food Program and UNHCR-issued basic items such as water, soap, sleeping mats and blankets.
“I can’t return my family back to the violence, it doesn’t add up going back home to go and live in hiding,” she said while sitting at the entrance of a partitioned stonewalled hall where refugees who have arrived in recent months sleep.
Cimanimpaye has attempted farming a few withered traditional vegetables outside the hall but the arid land in northern Kenya cannot match the productivity of her former home in Uganda where she farmed enough bananas, cassava and vegetables for her family.
A few miles from where Cimanimpaye lives, a fellow Congolese Bahati Musaba has been receiving support from U.N. agencies for nine years now.
She was among the first refugees who got stonewalled houses in Kakuma’s Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement in 2016 and has been receiving cash support from the WFP to buy food and basic items.
But the cash transfers have stopped now due to funding constraints and the refugees here will instead be given rice and lentils to cook at home. She is still grateful to have a home and with all her children in school where they receive hot lunches daily, her hope is that the school lunches never run out.
AP Video by Jackson Njehia
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