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The elimination of USAID and the Oct 7 war have exposed the extent to which the United Nations and ‘humanitarian aid’ groups rely on faking famines to justify billions in ‘aid’.
Freedom Center Investigates had previously exposed a fake famine in Yemen used to benefit the Houthi terrorists who were attacking US Navy ships. Despite claims by the UN that half of Yemen’s children were “severely malnourished” and that 85,000 children had died from malnutrition, the country’s population actually shot up from 30 million to 39 million. Not only did Yemen’s population rise by 30% during a famine, but the ‘starving’ Yemenis were able to assemble enough firepower to bombard US Navy ships and to launch drones at Israel.
After faking a famine in Yemen to benefit Islamic terrorists and its own operations, the UN went on to fake a famine in Gaza for the same reasons. The UN, its World Food Programme, and ‘humanitarian aid’ groups blamed Israel for not letting food into Gaza, when statistics showed that the food was getting in and the UN was faking the numbers and then not delivering food.
Photos and videos showed giant dumps full of food that the UN was stockpiling and not delivering. Earlier this year, the WFP’s own statistics claimed that 93% of its food aid was being “intercepted” inside Gaza and only 6% was being delivered successfully. And with a successful 6% delivery track record, the WFP demanded another $265 million to save Gaza from famine.
Gaza is yesterday’s news, and the famine scam has moved on to a refugee camp in Kenya.
According to media stories, the Trump administration “starved thousands”, “mainly children” in “
“an American-made hunger crisis.” by shutting down USAID. This narrative was pushed through ProPublica, a radical publication set up by the family whose shady practices caused the subprime mortgage crisis, and claims that by not providing enough money to the UN’s World Food Program, President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others had killed children.
The initial claim that “thousands starved” and that the victims were “mostly children” gives way to the more ambiguous claim that the people in question actually died “because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections.” This is an admission that the actual cause of death was infection, and that no one actually starved to death.
The scene of the story is the UNHCR (the UN’s non-Palestinian actual refugee agency) Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya which mainly houses South Sudanese, Somalis and others fleeing regional conflicts. The Lakuma refugee camp gets regular outbreaks of cholera and other infectious diseases. These predate Trump and have nothing to do with him.
ProPublica dates the crisis to WFP’s supposed ‘ration cuts’ for the camp in June, but that was the same month that reports show that the Kakuma refugee camp was grappling with a cholera surge. Deaths likely caused by the cholera surge are now being blamed on President Trump and the shutdown of USAID by claiming that they were really caused by a famine.
The UN curiously decided to stop releasing population numbers for Kakuma over the summer.
But before the last report in July, reports showed that Kakuma’s population was slowly climbing from 224,082 in April to 224,335 in May to 225,625 in July. That doesn’t fit with the narrative of a camp full of starving people in the spring. The UN’s last reports showed that Kakuma was growing. But this has also been true of Yemen, Gaza and other populations in other fake famines.
What are the actual numbers being claimed for the famine?
According to ProPublica and various ‘humanitarian aid’ groups, “at least 54 children have died in the hospital with complications brought on by malnutrition in 2025 alone.” An actual famine would have killed far more people in six months than that. And would have killed them directly rather than through other causes being blamed on malnutrition. No context is provided about past death rates, nor are any details offered about the actual cause of deaths.
There are very good reasons for that.
Part of the way through 2022, the International Rescue Committee, the same organization that runs the hospital that serves as the source for ProPublica‘s current figures, claimed that, “we’ve lost 45 children this year due to malnutrition”. Since this was happening under the Biden administration, the blame wasn’t directed at aid cuts, but at the threat of ‘climate change’.
The “thousands starved” by President Trump’s USAID shutdown has turned into deaths caused by an ongoing cholera epidemic that predates the Trump administration and with no major difference in the death rate before or after Trump and the aid cuts. Once again, “humanitarian aid” groups are exploiting deaths to blackmail Americans and demand billions of dollars.
There are actual problems in Kakuma, but the population isn’t starving to death, and the UN’s WFP has pulled this trick so often that there is no reason to trust any of its current claims.
Last December, Cindy McCain, the executive director of the World Food Program, claimed that the organization could “use $17 billion right now” because “people in Syria will starve to death.”
The starvation in Syria is just as real as the starvation in Gaza where a month after the Oct 7 attacks, McCain was already claiming that “food and water are practically non-existent in Gaza” A year later, McCain went on claiming that “we can no longer sit by and just allow these people to starve to death” and over the summer this year, claimed, “famine warnings have been clear for months.” And yet somehow, despite the 2-year famine, no one actually starved to death except through the familiar dodge of blaming the deaths of sick children on ‘malnutrition’.
McCain and the WFP have also been insisting that Afghanistan was on the verge of famine, and once again blamed President Trump’s aid cuts (that were benefiting the Taliban), Back in 2021, Cindy McCain tweeted, “millions of people in Afghanistan are facing starvation this winter.”
They didn’t starve to death in Afghanistan, in Syria, in Gaza, in Yemen or anywhere else.
“Famine is not inevitable,” McCain recently claimed while fundraising for the WFP. But as long as the WFP is asking for billions in money, famine is the most inevitable thing there is.
The WFP would like to spend almost $1 billion in Afghanistan, $320 million in Bangladesh, where a ruthless Islamist coup recently took place, $127 million in Pakistan, a nuclear armed terrorist state, $37 million in North Korea, $3.3 million in Communist China, $539 million in Somalia, nearly $20 million in Cuba, $889 million in ‘Palestine’, $802 million in Yemen, $481 million in Syria, and $8.3 million in Iran. It’s hard to find an enemy nation, the WFP isn’t aiding.
Meanwhile, the WFP continues to undermine the Trump administration and our allies.
The only thing the latest story proves is that we didn’t sufficiently defund the WFP. After this, not one more dollar should go to the UN’s World Food Programme and its famine industry.
