Kampala — KENYAN refugees currently camped at a primary school near Busia town, are experiencing serious food shortage. The refugees complained that they had not received any relief food ever since they entered on December 30, 2007.

Busia town council LC3 chairman Michael Mugeni and the refugees' camp commandant, Peter Karanja, complained that neither the office of the prime minister nor any of the humanitarian organisations operating in Uganda or Kenya had come to their rescue.

Ugandan officials in Malaba said about 2,000 Kenyans had crossed into the town since the announcement of the poll results on Sunday. The number of refugees at Busia Primary School had reached 575 by yesterday afternoon.

"Some of the desperate ones have resorted to roaming the streets to beg for food from homes and left-overs from the few restaurants that are still open," Karanja said.

Dinah Adong from the Uganda Red Cross Society said her organisation on Wednesday got a donation of only one bag of fresh potatoes from the headmaster of Tirra Secondary School.