By SIMON PETER EMWAMU

In Summary: Call for action: Touring the district at the weekend, the State Minister for Teso Affairs demanded that the government embarks on mass vaccination against the disease, which has been ignored since 2009.

The State Minister for Teso Affairs, Ms Christine Amongin, has asked the government to start a massive vaccination against Hepatitis B, a disease that has claimed several lives in the region since 2009.

By Perez Rumanzi

IN SUMMARY

The affected families are staying in a school and a health centre as they wait for government aid.

At least 500 residents in Rwenshama Fishing Village in Bwambara Sub-county, Rukungiri District have been displaced by floods from Lake Edward.

More than 200 families have been displaced since December and water movement triggered by violent waves on the lake were still forcing more to relocate by last week, according to local authorities.

LUWEERO authorities are on high alert following the death of two members of the same family due to the deadly hemorraghic Ebola fever in Nyimbwa sub-county over the last few days.

This latest incidence happened in Sombwe Parish about 40km north of Kampala. Joseph Okware, the Luwero District Health Officer Wednesday confirmed that the dead are members of the same family. He said Gladys Namakula and Rehemah Najjemba of Kikyusa village died and were buried on 10th and 12th respectively.

The Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness has asked development partners and the Bududa District authorities to give accountability for funds spent on landslide victims.

Mr Musa Ecweru, who was meeting the district leaders recently to officially communicate government decision to relocate the landslide victims to Kiryandongo, said: "After the resettlement matter has been concluded, there will be a debrief involving all partners who participated in the response."

Accountability

Mr Ecweru said: "You will be required

Kampala - Food aid being given to famine stricken areas by the government is not addressing the problem, Terego County MP Kassiano Wadri has said.

Mr Wadri, a member of the parliamentary committee on agriculture, that has compiled a report on the extent of famine in the country, said: "There is severe hunger in many parts of the country and the situation remains very grave. "This relief is not addressing the problem because you cannot give one mug of maize flour and beans to a family of 10 to 15 people. This food is not enough."

Arua - Several boarding primary and secondary schools in Arua District may be forced to end the second academic term prematurely due to the food crisis, education authorities have said.

The District Education Officer, Mr Nicholas Tembo, told Daily Monitor in an interview on Friday that head teachers have been directed to submit weekly reports on food status. This, Mr Tembo said, is to enable proper planning for food.

"It is true that the schools are also hit, but we don't want to be caught unaware. The school heads must

This week will mark the 14th anniversary of the fall of the second UPC government. Mr Milton Obote's second regime entered terminal shutdown in 1983 after the assassination of Maj. Gen. David Oyite Ojok and his replacement with Smith Opon Acak.

Mr Obote's final two years in office were marked first by an escalation of intra-army ethnic feuds, an escalation in guerilla activities aided by Paulo Muwanga that threw armed groups like NRA, UFM and FEDEMU a lifeline.

It is now almost forgotten that other

Kampala - The ministry of disaster preparedness is set to distribute food relief worth shs 982 million to 13 famine stricken districts in the north and north eastern part of the country.

According to a statement from the minister for disaster preparedness Tarsis Kabwegyere, the districts include Terego-Maracha, Oyam, Kotido, Busia, Amolatar, Amuria, Katakwi, Moyo, Nebbi, Kitgum, Palisa, Kamuli and Dokolo.

"A total of 4,680 bags of maize grain and 1,820 bags of beans worth shs 982,800,000 will today Thursday

In the West Nile region, as many as 15 people have reportedly died of starvation since Monday, the Maracha-Terego District Secretary for Finance, Mr Emmanuel Adripiyo, told a district council session this week.

Mr Adripiyo said six people had died in Ayivu Sub-county; four from each of Katrini and Uriama sub-counties, and one from Yivu. "The situation is now at a crisis point where we