World Vision Aids 11,000 Infants in Northen Uganda

World Vision has given food supplements to over 11,000 infants in northern Uganda in the year, an effort aimed at fighting malnutrition among children living in internally displaced people's camps in war-torn Northern Uganda.

The organisation recently marked its farmers' day, which aimed at reviewing World Vision's end of year activities in improving household agricultural production among those displaced.

"We have enrolled and given supplementary feeds to 11,885 malnourished children living in the various camps across the region so that they regain their health status," World Vision northern region communications officer, Mr Simon Mugenyi said.

The retired Anglican Bishop of Kitgum Diocese in Uganda has called the 20-year war in the northern part of the country a genocide.

Macleord Ochala told the 75th General Convention of the US Episcopal Church in Columbus Ohio he had come in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to tell about the genocide that has been going on in northern Uganda for the last 20 years.

"Terrible crimes against humanity have been committed with impunity in northern and northeastern Uganda by both the so-called Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Uganda People's Defence Force."

The retired Bishop of Kitgum also told delegates at the Convention that the Ugandan government had forced thousands into camps for internally displaced people where overcrowding had led to the additional loss of life.

"The harassment and forcing of people into the camps started in 1996 in Gulu. As a result, many people have lost their lives due to the conditions of congestion in the camps," he said.

He added, "While the terror by the LRA and UPDF has killed people, the catastrophic and inhuman conditions in the IDP camps have also taken a big toll."