Uganda: Food crisis feared as subsistence farmers sell produce

The government has made immediate food relief distributions in the most affected areas.

"We are still assessing the situation, but initial indications point to an acute food shortage and [the] government has resorted to immediate food relief distribution, earmarking 10 billion shillings [US$5 million] to purchase food for those areas that are in bad shape,” Tarsis Kabwegyere, the disaster preparedness minister, said.

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