Uganda could be next hit by malnutrition, U.N. warns (we need a war on hunger)

[The Straight Story]

Uganda could be next hit by malnutrition, U.N. warns

Uganda could be the next country hit by alarming malnutrition rates due to drought which has already sparked famine in southern Somalia and hunger in Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

Pockets of food insecurity have already been detected in drought-hit northern areas of Uganda, east Africa's third largest economy, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.

"Uganda may be the next country hit with these same sort of alarming malnutrition and drought conditions," FAO's Sandra Aviles told a news briefing.

An estimated 600,000 people in drought-prone northern Uganda currently face moderate food insecurity, corresponding to phase two on a U.N. scale where five means famine, she told Reuters.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/02/us-africa-drought-idUSTRE7712PH20110802

[FiveGoodMen]

1. We need to stop using war as a metaphor for everything

Yes, we need to work hard to end hunger, but let's not call it a war.

People are so used to the word 'war' that they don't even recoil at its mention.

And that's bad.

[The Straight Story]

3. Hmmm how about Jihad?

:rofl:

[msongs]

2. better yet give out all the free condoms we can spare while we provide food as well nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. No, no, no. NO war on hunger.

Whenever we declare war on a problem, we only make it worse.

[madrchsod]

5. this century will see this happening around the globe.

when the driest desert on the planet receives 1/4 of an inch of rain we`d better wake up. hell northwestern illinois received 15 inches of rain in two day last week. the watershed raised the mississippi river 4 ft.