A Karimojong girl enjoys a roasted head of a chicken while at Kikaramoja zone at Masese III village in Jinja district on Tuesday.
Karimojong women waiting for rice donations.
Death as famine ravages Uganda
In an interview yesterday, the district Speaker of Amuria, Mr Robert Adiama, said, “There’s famine because of several factors like the drought spell which has hit the district. We actually need food urgently.”
Mr Adiama said the famine has reached a level where people cannot afford three meals a day. “What we need now are ways of helping these people to survive and how they can access seeds for planting,” he said.
Even in cases where the food is available, he added, it has become very expensive for the people to afford. “For example a basin of cassava which was costing between Shs2500 and Shs5000 is now Shs10,000. Not many people can afford,” Mr Adiama said.
The famine is partly a result of the poverty already biting a large part of the population, with 57 per cent saying in a late 2008 opinion poll commissioned by Afrobarometer that they had gone without food at one point in the last year and 55 per cent saying they had gone without water – up from 49 per cent in 2005.
(Daily Monitor)
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Thank you for sharing this post.
Last week in church we sang some song, don't remember which, but there was a line about the nations and I cried out for Cuba and Uganda.
If there is one thing Jesus spoke well...it was the truth!
Crying out for my ears to hear,
Margie
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