At least 900,000 people in Karamoja, northeastern Uganda, are facing severe food insecurity due to four consecutive years of failed rains and poor harvests, says the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net).
– Overall, Karamoja continues to experience widespread high food insecurity, FEWS Net observes in its March update.
At least 81 percent of the estimated 1.1 million food-insecure people in Uganda are in Karamoja, according to the agency.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) told IRIN it planned to restart food distributions in the region in April as people had used up the little that was produced during the last harvest.
According to FEWS Net, Karamoja and parts of northern Uganda – Pader and Kitgum districts – are the exception to the general food security observed in most parts of the country.
