WFP cuts food rations to Uganda by half
Daniel Arapmoi
Press TV, Kampala
Over 150,000 refugees living in Uganda are in fear of starvation after World Food Program decided to reduce food rations by 50% as a result of insufficient funding. The World Food program has defined affected refugees as those who arrived in Uganda before July 2013. And this redefinition has excluded nearly 138,000 refugees who fled South Sudan since fighting broke out there in December 2013. Also exempt are extremely vulnerable individuals identified by the UN refugee agency UNHCR.
There are growing fears that if the World Food program fails to receive substantial contributions in the coming months, the cuts could last for the next six months or longer and possibly even affect the new South Sudanese refugees who are still pouring into Uganda each week in thousands.
The cut comes at a particularly vulnerable time for refugees in Uganda. Government assessment has found that more than half of all refugee families due to be affected by the ration cuts had poor harvest.
Uganda government is appealing to donors to rally food support in order to save the situation before it gets out of hand.
The World Food Program requires 7.6 million dollars each month to support an estimated 383,000 refugees in Uganda. But with given the cuts, the World food body says the refugees will experience a very tough time in the first quarter of 2015 as their food stocks run low.
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