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“The recent arrival of thousands of new refugees into Uganda is stretching already limited resources and the combined effects of consecutive years of below-average food harvests, poor livestock production and sharply rising food prices, have left half a million people facing hunger in Karamoja,” says Abdirahman Meygag, WFP’s Country Director in Uganda. WFP supports 1.3 million refugees in Ugand

This additional cost to WFP’s operations could have been used to provide six million school children with a daily nutritious meal for six months.

WFP is currently assisting up to 400,000 people in Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa provinces with an in-kind monthly family food basket of 50 kg of cereals, 5 liters of oil and 10 kg of dried beans and lentils.

It has been eight years since armed fighters chased Neema Georgine and her family from their farm in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Clashes between non-state armed groups and state forces have disrupted livelihoods and markets in the two regions, which are among Cameroon’s most fertile.

Up to 70 percent of Mozambicans live in rural areas and depend on agriculture to survive.