Why is Uganda experiencing a food crisis?

A hunger crisis is brewing in Uganda as the country battles its worst drought in decades.

Crops across the country have failed, and families are losing loved ones as the crisis deepens across the country’s northeastern region and the wider Horn of Africa. At least 19 people have starved to death in the Karamoja region, where 1.5 million people are at risk of malnutrition, according to the Famine...