Uganda: Food aid cuts, COVID-19 pandemic leave refugees at the brink of starvation

In Uganda, nearly 500,000 refugees do t have sufficient food to eat, a crisis that has emerged from disastrous combination of COVID-19 and severe cuts to food aids. As per Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), over 91,000 people living in 13 refugee settlements in Uganda were experiencing severe food short. In dition, re were more than 400,000 refugees at  crisis hunger levels.

shorts even affect children as more than 135,130 have been found to be acutely malurished and in need of immediate treatment. As per IPC, situation could worsen if ditional cuts are me in food supplies to hard-hit refugee camps.

Cuts in food aid were first me in April, when bel Peace Price winning World Food Programme anunced a 30 percent reduction to food rations and cash transfers to more than 1.4 million refugees. Unfortunately, cuts coincided with COVID-19 pandemic which left refuges without work or ditional means to feed mselves and ir families. 

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About World Food Programme

Established in 1961, Rome-based United Nations’ food-assistance branch remains world’s largest humanitarian organisation dressing hunger and promoting food security.  WFP was created as an experiment to provide food assistance through United Nations channels. WFP was initially tasked with emergency aid and rehabilitation, however, in 1963, aid group launched its first development programme in Sudan. In 1965, WFP was enshrined as a full-fledged UN programme and was to last for “as long as multilateral food aid is found feasible and desirable”.

WFP is also largest humanitarian organisation implementing school feeding programmes worldwide and in 2019, it provided school meals to more than 17.3 million children in 50 countries. aid group says that it meets people’s food needs through cash-based transfers that allow people y serve to choose and shop for ir own food locally.

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