In July 2022 the Ugandan media reported that 900 people had died of hunger or hunger-related diseases in the Karamoja sub-region since February 2022, and that 8 out of 10 households had limited or no food.
The 2022 Humanitarian Crisis in Karamoja: Findings from a real-time review
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