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...high food prices. WFP buys more food in Uganda than in any other country in the world. Most of the land is lush and fertile, and the government is stable; President Yoweri Museveni has ruled since 1986. Last year WFP's administrative center in the capital city Kampala, then responsible for 11 countries in eastern and central Africa, handled some 15 million recipients and about one-third of WFP's annual global food distribution...
Sitting at his desk in Kampala, Uganda Country Office Director Tesema Negash rattles through the groups that make up the roughly 2 million WFP-aid recipients in the country. There are more than 170,000 refugees from neighboring countries, and nearly 1 million who have been "internally displaced" in northern Uganda by a long-running guerrilla war. Then there are the residents of drought-stricken Karamoja, as well as pregnant and nursing mothers and HIV/AIDS patients. A ballooning food budget, coupled with the off-again, on-again nature of donor funding, have threatened nearly every Uganda program at some point...
...Uncertainty Principle In some ways WFP is more like a global shipping company than an aid agency. Every Monday through Friday - weekends too if there's an emergency - empty trucks pull up at the warehouse in Kampala, bound for destinations around Uganda and neighboring countries. Nearly 200 porters jog around the warehouse, a steady stream of men carrying 100-lb (50 kg) bags of food on their heads. Trains and trucks arrive full from local traders and from the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, where ships bring donated food from the U.S. and other Western countries. (About two-thirds...
...born in Kampala, Uganda. My ancestors had moved there from India, part of a wave of migration that began in the 1880s, when the British brought over Indian indentured laborers to build the East African railway. They were followed by Indian entrepreneurs and the impoverished, all hoping to make good in that fecund land...
Some of the real-life tragedies I have witnessed over the years echo Shakespeare. Bharti, a young Hindu, used to take refuge in our house in Kampala to escape her oppressive father; he tried to force her into a marriage and she killed herself. My chemistry teacher, also a Hindu, fell in love with a Muslim woman; her family whisked her off to Pakistan and he swallowed acid in the school laboratory, dying for love. A distant relative in Tanzania was charged with hiring killers to murder her oldest son, his wife and their babies because her husband threatened...