Karamoja Drought and Hunger Crisis
Uganda began emergency food distributions after drought and crop failures caused hunger affecting 1.5 million people and reportedly killed 19.
Severity score
29.5
Limited · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Months of drought and crop failures have produced a severe hunger emergency in Uganda's Karamoja region. The government has begun emergency food distributions.
The reported toll is 19 deaths, with 1.5 million people affected. No displacement or economic-loss estimate is supplied.
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
7Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
45People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
18Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
39Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
67Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
Recent coverage
- 03 Aug 2026theguardian.comUganda begins emergency food handouts after 19 die from ...
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