Away from media coverage that has come to focus on war in Ukraine or famine that threatens the Horn of Africa on a large scale, Karamoja borders Uganda, South Sudan and Kenya, where more than half a million people suffer from hunger or 40% of the region's population

Even in Uganda, the crisis sweeping this remote area more than 500 kilometres from the capital, Kampala, known to be troubled, does not draw attention, with some 91,600 children and 9,500 pregnant women suffering from severe malnutrition and needing treatment, according to the latest humanitarian agency assessment.

Karimojong communities, which have lived from livestock husbandry and agriculture for decades, have lived through the frequency of repeated attacks by livestock-stealing gangs, followed by reprisals -- from various Bedouin groups crossing the porous border between Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda.

The main causes are natural disasters, locusts, worms and attacks, and climate change has negatively affected the lifestyle, with the region currently experiencing a period of drought after last year's floods and soil slides.