Uganda: WFP Fails to Deliver Relief Food to Teso

18 September 2007

Soroti — HOPE turned to despair yesterday for the thousands of people in flood hit Teso after the government failed to deliver on its promise to airlift relief food to the desperate areas cut off by severe flooding.

On Friday, the State Minister for Disaster Preparedness, Mr Musa Ecweru, told the press that the United Nations had promised to send three helicopters by yesterday.

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