Findings to determine resumption of relief work in Bundibugyo

Humanitarian agencies who pulled out of Bundibugyo area in western Uganda are awaiting the findings of their missions to the area to determine whether they will resume relief work. The agencies left the area last month because of insecurity.

"The situation disrupted planting and farming activities in the area and displaced several families," a humanitarian source told IRIN on Thursday. An assessment team from MSF-France, which
had frozen its activities in Bundibugyo, is due to return to Kampala on Friday. The Uganda UN Security Officer is also in the area to ascertain the situation.

WFP has continued sending food which is distributed by the local administration. AFP quoted the resident district commissioner, Edward Masiga, who said the town was "overflowing" with displaced people, and humanitarian sources told IRIN their condition was not yet known.