In his speech broadcast by Ugandan radio, Museveni warned however that the offer was not open-ended. He announced he would recruit more soldiers and buy more military equipment to crush insurgencies. In a press release, the head of the WFP Africa desk in Rome, Mohamed Zejjari, pointed out the agency was virtually the sole source of food for over one million people in the region. He said the three-month gap arose because of delays in deliveries of food to the region. WFP's representative in Tanzania warned that refugees there are particularly vulnerable to reduced rations because many are already in fragile health.
Continued reductions are extremely dangerous.
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