Extreme weather starving Uganda's pastoralists
AFP, April, 2008
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LOKUPOI, Uganda (AFP) — John Lochaon does not just survive on less than one dollar a day. He has streched out 15 dollars for nine months in a part of Uganda that climate change is plunging into famine.
Lochaon has been unable to make a living because he lives in Karamoja, one of the driest and least developed areas in this east African country and one with a lack of infrastructure and basic services.
Drought forces the one million-plus people in this northeastern region bordering Kenya and Sudan to constantly move around searching for food.
"I have two problems: old age and hunger," said the elderly Lochaon, who does not know his age. He sat on a log outside of his thatched-roof hut, his long, shrivelled limbs stretched over the dusty ground as lizards scurried by.
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