WFP Warns of Food Shortage
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The Monitor (Kampala)
June 26, 2004
Posted to the web June 25, 2004
Badru D. Mulumba
Kampala
A food shortfall threatens to curtail the World Food Programme Operations leaving
thousands going hungry. Pupils, street children, victims of HIV/Aids, orphans,
refugees, and war victims in internally displaced persons camps are short of 61
million kilogrammes of food, the WFP announced.
A report, "WFP Feeding the hungry poor in Uganda" availed to The Monitor on Thursday
seems to vindicate claims by Parliament's Select Committee on the Humanitarian Crisis
in the north and northeast that a food crisis was forcing people to eat rats. MPs
tabled the report in Parliament on Wednesday.
WFP's latest figures put the food needs to feed 2.3 million people at 239 million
kilogrammes. "Over 1,619,744 people are displaced in 104 camps in Gulu, Kitgum, Pader
and Lira districts and 340,505 in Katakwi, Soroti and Kaberamaido districts," says the
reports.
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"Over 1.6 million displaced people, largely women and children, are dependent on food
aid for basic survival," it adds. The 1.6 million IDPs need 180,941 tonnes, 148,249
refugees in West Nile, Masindi, Hoima, Kyenjojo and Mbarara need 18,126 tonnes.
Also, 164,378 street children and orphans in Kampala, Jinja, Mukono, Mbale, Mpigi and
Busia, and people affected by Aids in Kampala, Gulu, Kitgum, Hoima and Arua.
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