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...more than 170,000 refugees from neighboring countries, and nearly 1 million who have been "internally displaced" in northern Uganda by a long-running guerrilla war. Then there are the residents of drought-stricken Karamoja, as well as pregnant and nursing mothers and HIV/AIDS patients. A ballooning food budget, coupled with the off-again, on-again nature of donor funding, have threatened nearly every Uganda program at some point this year. "Prioritization is extremely difficult for us," Negash says, "because all these categories, all of them, they're almost totally dependent...
Worldwide, WFP boasts that its overhead costs are no more than 7% of total operating budget. But today's food and fuel shortages don't just mean higher costs; they also introduce new elements of unpredictability to getting aid to those who need it. The day after distributing to Lokali parish, WFP officers in Karamoja are out again in nearby Moruongor. But the food trucks only trundle up to the distribution point at noon, three hours after recipients began gathering along the side of the dirt road. The reason for the delay: the weekend's diesel delivery never arrived from...
...work programs, improving the roads, digging water ponds and farming. "That's what can help people," he says - and he may be right. Long-term, WFP's only way out of Karamoja will come when the region is self-sufficient once again. Getting there will take a predictable budget, more security, and time for forward planning - all luxuries now. And yet as the sun beats down on the squabbling crowds, no one here claims that WFP's efforts have been wasted. "We're happy!" one woman says, and she whoops with joy as she gets set to pick...
...strategy also reflects how defense and security challenges have changed. Sarkozy said terrorism was the biggest threat to French security, and he pledged to create a leaner, more mobile and better-equipped army. He called for a doubling of the intelligence budget for new satellites, drones and other surveillance equipment - but plans to offset that by trimming the army, navy and air force from 271,000 troops to 224,000, with the army alone set for a 24% cut in personnel. Some 50 military bases, garrisons and other defense facilities are to be closed in a move that has already...
...Korski says other factors are forcing Sarkozy's hand, as his defense budget cuts suggested. "It is generally acknowledged that the French state is close to scraping the barrel on finance, so cuts have got to be made. Policy and money go hand in hand," he says. In other words, if France is dropping its much-vaunted posture of independence on defense, it is - at least partly - because it cannot afford it anymore...