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Several days ago most of the roads in and around
Kampala (Uganda) were impassable due to the non stop rain. Can any body tell me
why we must send food to Uganda? You see if it is a natural cause then I
understand that we must fight it, but if it is a war which has no end in
the near future, why should we be involved?
Why don't we get Uganda government to flush out the
rebels or if it has failed leave office and some one who can go in power and we
solve that problem? I mean as a Canadian tax payer why should I send money to a
fertile nation which has no end of a war in sight?
Just thinking out loud.
Em
The
Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
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Subject: AFRICADAILY3 UGANDA: Food aid
needed for 1.6 million people
UGANDA: Food aid needed for 1.6 million
people
NAIROBI, 29 July (IRIN) - Food aid is urgently needed for over
1.6 million people in northern and eastern Uganda in the worst humanitarian
crisis the country has seen for years, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP)
said on Tuesday.
Those most in need were 820,000 displaced people in
the north, 655,000 drought victims in Karamoja region, and 147,000 refugees
from the Democratic Republic of Congo. While food stocks were available for
August, there would be a "pipeline crisis" by September, WFP spokeswoman Lara
Melo told IRIN.
Over one million people are currently displaced by the
ongoing conflict with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the north, not
all of whom were accessible by humanitarian workers, said Melo. Currently WFP
was unable to reach about 150,000 displaced people around Katakwi in eastern
Uganda, she added.
Meanwhile, the major roads outside Gulu, Kitgum and
Pader in the north remained so insecure that food aid could not be delivered
without a military escort, which in some cases was not available, Melo told
IRIN.
The fear of abductions by the LRA - 8,400 from June 2002 until
June 2003 - killings and looting have also severely hampered people's ability
to produce or even buy food. This was the second planting season to be
severely disrupted by fighting, WFP said.
Since June 2002, the
conflict has spread beyond the traditional areas of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader
districts further south to Lira, Apac, Soroti, Katakwi, Kumi and Kotido
districts.
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