Aid men defy bandits
NZPA-Reuter, Kampala Several aid organisations are continuing tneir food and medical aid programmes to the drought-stricken Karamoja region of northern Uganda despite the temporary suspension of relief aid by. the United Nations. . The ..Save, the Children Fund field . director, Guy Blest, said m Kampala yesterday: "The medical treatment: we are giving simply can’t be, halted.” . . . <
He said that he had askedi his fund’s head office in. London to do all . in its power to get the United Nations to lift is embargo on supplies needed for fund projects. “Mopey is not a problem. ' But. the. United Nations has the supplies and the transport which we need,” he added. A. United Nations spokesman in Geneva said last month; that more , than 200 people were dying of hunger
every day in Katamoja. A senior aid official in Rome said last week that there were enough emergency food supplies in Uganda for the famine victims, but that distribution was almost impossible because of lawlessness.
The United Nations agencies, which have been co-ordinating, supplies and transport for Karamoja, recently suspended activities after heavily-armed cattle raiders attacked a five-truck convoy in Karamoja.
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