WORLD IN BRIEF : UGANDA : Starvation Reported in Drought Region

About 300 people have starved in northeastern Uganda in the last four weeks, a government official said in Kampala, marking east Africa’s first famine deaths in a year in which it is feared hundreds of thousands more may die. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, said that in the region of Moroto, 220 miles northeast of the capital Kampala, a 10-month drought drove herdsmen from the parched province across the border into Kenya in search of pasture, but that at least 300 people died. A team of U.N. experts spent the last six days assessing the drought, the official said, and concluded food deliveries were an urgent priority to prevent further deaths.