A Ugandan government minister is facing criticism after calling those who have died of hunger in his country "idiots".



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Some say the comments are insensitive after 2,200 died of starvation and related illnesses in 2022.

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A Ugandan minister has courted controversy for calling those who have died of hunger in the African country "idiots". Henry Okello Oryem, the state minister for foreign affairs made the tone-deaf comment. 
Oryem argued that people should utilise Uganda's favourable climate and fertile land by growing food for themselves.  
"It's only an idiot, a real idiot, that can die of hunger in Uganda," Oryem told the NTV Uganda television channel.

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Ugandan foreign affairs minister, Henry Oryem’s comment calling those who have died of hunger in his country idiots has sparked outrage. Oryem had said that the country’s favourable climate and fertile land should push Ugandans to grow food for themselves. “It’s only an idiot, a real idiot, that can die of hunger in Uganda,” the state minister for foreign affairs told the NTV Uganda television channel. “If you work hard, there is land in Uganda.…

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Pobouření a nesouhlasné reakce vyvolalo prohlášení ugandského ministra zahraničních věcí, který reagoval na zprávy o hladomoru v severovýchodním regionu Karamoja. Henry Oryem Okello totiž ve státní televizi NTV prohlásil, že „umřít hlady může v Ugandě jen naprostý idiot“. Během vleklého období sucha v Karamoji v roce 2022 zemřelo přes dva tisíce lidí.

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A government minister in Uganda is in trouble for calling the people who died of hunger in his country “idiots”. Many people think that Henry Okello Oryem’s comments are insensitive. In 2022, a report from a human rights group said that over 2,200 people in north-east Uganda died because they did not have enough to […]

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Uganda minister says people dying of hunger are ‘idiots’

State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Henry Oryem Okello, sparked controversy by referring to Ugandans dying of hunger as “idiots”  in an exclusive interview with NTV Uganda. The comments come months after famine, exacerbated by climate change, poverty, and insecurity, affected parts of the country, leading to deaths in the Karamoja sub-region. Minister Oryem, addressing the issue, stated, “Those are idiots because there is enough food in Ugan…

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Outrage as Minister Labels Starving Ugandans "Idiots"

Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Henry Okello Oryem has drawn the ire of the public after he labeled people who have died of hunger in the East African nation as “idiots.” According to BBC, a report from an official human rights body stated that over 2,200 people in north-east Uganda died as a result of hunger and associated diseases in 2022.  Besides the hunger-related deaths, the famine in the northeastern part of the East African nation has …

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