In the larger East African region, hunger pangs were equally felt more this year, more than eight million people were reported to be facing starvation in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan and Burundi due to a poor harvest that stretched the region’s food reserves. PHOTO | FILE
For many Rwandans, the late harvest brought relief to a 2016 that was overcast by hunger.
At some point more than 100,000 families especially in the Eastern Province districts of Rwamagana, Nyagatare, Bugesera, Kayonza and Kirehe, as well as Nyanza, Gisagara in the South suffered famine after crops failed due to drought.
