More than 1,6-million people driven from their homes during Uganda’s 18-year civil war risk losing their main source of food as international donors grow weary of the conflict, a United Nations food agency official said on Friday. Fund-raising from wealthy nations to pay for the programme has fallen -million short.
Rebel attacks in northern Uganda have forced more than 20 000 refugees to flee their camps in recent weeks, the United Nations refugee agency said Sunday. The rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army have been raiding four camps in Adjumani district to loot food, medicine and other goods since the beginning of April.