Lydia Wamala

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  www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=6148&CategoryID=7 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/5/2008    Last Visited: 9/5/2008  

  Lydia Wamala, spokeswoman for the WFP's Uganda office, says that the UN agency has always tried to buy around half of its food on the continent, but the percentage increased to 65 percent last year."It's becoming more and more of a trend to buy food from African growers instead of importing from abroad", Wamala said.

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  www.fighthunger.org/english/?n=322&pageNumber=2&StartRo - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/25/2008    Last Visited: 6/25/2008  

  Lydia Wamala spent a day among the school's students, staff - and livestock!
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  Lydia Wamala, a WFP public information assistant based in Kampala, sent this e-card from Kalongo, a town built around a massive rock that is home to one of the largest camps for displaced people in northern Uganda.

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  Published on: 10/10/2008    Last Visited: 11/22/2007  

  WFP spokesperson for Uganda, Lydia Wamala, reports on the displaced people who were already living in camps and who received another blow to re-starting their lives.

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  Published on: 8/28/2008    Last Visited: 8/31/2008  

  Lydia Wamala, spokeswoman for the WFP's Uganda office, said that the UN agency has always tried to buy around half of its food on the continent, but the percentage increased to 65 percent last year.
  
  "It's becoming more and more of a trend to buy food from African growers instead of importing from abroad," Wamala said.

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  www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/581019 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/12/2007    Last Visited: 8/13/2007  

  But in May, we withdrew lunch until enough funds are secured," the WFP public information assistant, Lydia Wamala, told journalists.
  
  She was distributing food rations worth $3.8m (about sh6.3b) to over 154,600 internally displaced persons returning to their villages in Gulu Amuru and Lira districts recently.
  
  In April, WFP cut the food rations for Uganda's displaced people and refugees by 50% and warned that if the funding crisis continued, it would cut food in schools.
  
  The world's largest humanitarian agency needs $134m to support 1.2 million IDPs, 187,000 refugees and 500,000 people affected by drought in Karamoja sub-region this year.But only $96m has been received so far.
  
  "Food for education is one of our interventions because we are aware that meals contribute to increased enrollment, sustained attendance and enhance children's cognitive development," Wamala said.

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  www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/558186 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/5/2007    Last Visited: 4/6/2007  

  Only the extremely vulnerable people (such as) the elderly, ill or child-headed households remain at 100 percent (16.6 kgs)," said Lydia Wamala, the WFP public information assistant.
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  Wamala complained that northern Uganda is being forgotten as the media focuses on other disasters like Darfur in Sudan.
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  We need to support them not only until they go home, but until they can harvest enough food for their families," Wamala stressed.

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  www.fighthunger.org/en/node/1738 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/2007    Last Visited: 4/1/2007  

  The WFP spokesperson, Lydia Wamala, said the walking locations in Uganda were Arua, Lira, Gulu, Moroto, Kitgum, Adjumani, Kotido, Soroti, bundibugyo and Pader where more than 40,000 internally displaced persons walked to end hunger.

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  In Depth | WFP - Newsroom - News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/9/2006    Last Visited: 11/21/2006  

  WFP spokesperson, Lydia Wamala, looks at how participants increase their income while having a good supply of fish for their families' dinners.

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  New Vision Online : Ugandans walk against hunger - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/21/2006    Last Visited: 5/22/2006  

  The WFP spokesperson, Lydia Wamala, said the walking locations in Uganda were Arua, Lira, Gulu, Moroto, Kitgum, Adjumani, Kotido, Soroti, bundibugyo and Pader where more than 40,000 internally displaced persons walked to end hunger.

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  New Vision Online : WFP to buy $12m local food - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/10/2008    Last Visited: 10/29/2005  

  A statement signed by WFP's public information assistant Lydia Wamala said the UN organisation purchases half of the food for its operations from Uganda.

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