1.6m Ugandans need food

More than 1.6 million people in Uganda, half of them displaced by a vicious 17-year rebellion in the north, are in desperate need of food, the UN food agency said on Monday in its appeal for $54m to feed them.

Fighting between the Ugandan army and rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army, as well as raids by the insurgents on town and villages, has forced 820 817 people to flee their homes in northern and northeastern Uganda, Edward Kallon, program manager for the World Food Programme in the East African nation, said.

The LRA rebels have also abducted 8 400 children in the past year, he said. Aid groups estimate that the rebels have made off with 20 000 children since the rebellion began, turning the boys into fighters and the girls into concubines.

Every night, thousands of children in northern Uganda flock to the region's main towns where they huddle together on the streets to avoid being snatched by the rebels who roam the countryside largely unopposed after dark.

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I thought Shrub went to Uganda recently because it's such a peachy example to the rsst of Africa...