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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. I rise to address the nation and our National Assembly. After the defunding of all UN organisations by President Trump’s administration… I am a Member of Parliament of an area that hosts two refugee camps, the Dadaab Refugee Camp or the Dadaab Complex and Hagadera. The situation in the refugee camps right now during this month of Ramadhan is dire. The refugees are getting less than 20 per cent of the rations they used to get before. So, we have a disaster. We have starvation in the refugee camps. I am calling on our good Government and all other well-wishers in this case, businessmen to help the refugees who are in our country today so that they can get a balanced diet in this month of Ramadhan. I particularly call upon the Department of Special Programmes to deal with this thing. Otherwise, we are staring at starvation in our eyes. Refugees are struggling to get water and basic medical services. All the UN agencies that have been defunded are not executing their programme specialties as they used to do before, particularly a body like the World Food Programme. I call upon our Government and other governments to come to the assistance of the 600,000 refugees that we have in the Dadaab Refugee Complex and almost 200,000 refugees in Kakuma Complex. Thank you."
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