Refugees in east Africa go hungry as funds dry up
In Uganda, rations have been cut by 40%
AT A FOOD distribution centre in Bidibidi, a refugee settlement in Uganda, a handwritten cardboard sign tells refugees their maize ration: 15kg for two months. That works out to 250 grams a day, to go with 60 grams of beans, a splash of oil and half a teaspoon of salt. A day after receiving hers, Ito Juani has already used some of it to repay a loan of cassava that got her through a lean spell. “The world has given up on us,” she says.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Rationed out”
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