If we are all starting to feel impatient about the war in Iraq after two weeks, then try to imagine how the 83,000 refugees at the Kakuma camp in north-west Kenya are feeling. Driven from Sudan, Somalia and half-a-dozen other countries by war and famine, some have been waiting for more than 10 years in this arid, remote region. The refugees at Kakuma depend on the UN High Commission for Refugees for housing, sanitation and schooling, and on the World Food Program for food. But the cash-strapped UNHCR is struggling to provide a basic level of services in the camp and the WFP is so short of food that it has cut the daily ration to 75 per cent of the minimum calorie requirement.