Uganda launches emergency food aid as drought deaths mount in Karamoja

At least 19 deaths from hunger reported; 1.5 million people facing acute malnutrition; health facilities treating hundreds of malnourished children; widespread food insecurity forcing families to skip meals.

In Uganda's arid Karamoja region, where the rains failed to arrive this spring and at least nineteen people have died of hunger, the government has launched its first large-scale emergency food distribution — 9,400 tonnes over two months, funded by roughly nine million pounds from parliament. The crisis, which now threatens 1.5 million people with acute malnutrition, arrives at a moment when international aid organisations have sharply reduced their presence, leaving the state to fill a gap it has not historically filled alone. It is a story as old as drought itself: immediate suffering demand

Uganda launches emergency food aid as drought deaths mount in Karamoja

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