UNITED NATIONS, United States: Appealing to donors to urgently help bolster the humanitarian response in Uganda following an influx of thousands of people fleeing violence in neighboring South Sudan, the United and the Ugandan Government today (Thursday in Manila) announced that they will be forced to halve food rations or cash assistance in Uganda and put priority focus on those refugees most in need.
“Around 200,000 refugees who arrived in Uganda prior to July 2015 will have their food rations or cash assistance reduced by 50 per cent from this week,” according to a joint press release issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Program (WFP) and Uganda’s Office of the Prime Minister.
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