Uganda begins emergency food handouts after 19 die from hunger

Uganda has begun emergency food distribution in the Karamoja region after at least nineteen people died from hunger there, the Guardian reports. Months of drought have caused repeated crop failures across the region, leaving one point five million people facing acute food shortages and rising malnutrition. The government's relief effort marks the first major response to a crisis that has been building for months as the expected rains failed to arrive.

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