KAMPALA (June 28) XINHUA - The U.N.
World Food Program (WFP) will deliver 400 tons of relief food to some 146,000
displaced people in the district of Bundibugyo in western Uganda.
Apollo Katsigazi, WFP convoy monitor,
said here at the weekend that his organization had already delivered 280
tons of food to the homeless.
Five health units had also benefited from the relief assistance being offered by the WFP, the New Vision newspaper Monday quoted Katsigazi as saying.
Among the items given to the displaced are maize flour, maize grains, soya beans, sugar, groundnuts and cooking oil.
In the district, local leaders commended the WFP assistance but called for more help to the displaced people who were being resettled in the protected areas.
The report said that the Medicines sans Frontiers, an international non-governmental organization, is also in the district to treat the sick and avert the spread of communicable diseases like cholera in the camps.
The local people were reportedly mainly displaced by rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces active in the mountains in the region.
The Ugandan government has tried to flush out the rebels and kill them, but with little success. The rebels camp in the bushes and the government troops have difficulty in reaching them.
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