3 months on, refugees-verification-exercise is a success, officials say.
OPM-UNHCR on-going biometric verification exercise, which is established with the aim of ascertaining the exact number of refugees in Uganda, is...
Refugee inflow into Uganda turns into environmental disaster.
With the inflow of South Sudanese people, majorly, into Northern districts of Uganda seeking refuge, the populations quickly rose exorbitantly. They...
Three years on: how much have ‘mobile courts’ achieved?
Until the influx of asylum seekers from South Sudan, escaping recent violent conflict that has claimed lives of nearly 400,000 people,...
Missing refugee woman found dead in Bidibidi forest
A
South Sudanese woman, who went missing a week ago from Bidibidi refugee settlement,
has been found dead. A group of...
Ugandan Archbishop calls for peace, in South Sudan. Will his voice make a difference?
In an effort to try to bring peace to war-torn South Sudan, various groups of people from all walks of life...
“We Shall Never Go Back To War Again” VP.
South
Sudan’s vice president Dr James Wani Igga pledged that his government will not
go back to war again if peace...
Refugees: What is the way forward?
UN World Food Program (WFP) distributes food assistance periodically to refugees and asylum seekers, in Uganda. The UN agency usually provides starchy,...
Are women and girls in refugee settlements easy prey to criminals?
UN High Commissioner for Refugees report indicates over 800 crimes were reported in refugee settlements in West Nile, between January and...
South Sudan’s Independence Day comes and passes unnoticed
Yesterday, July 9 marked eight years of South Sudan’s Independence, after splitting from Sudan. Unlike in the past, this independence day...
Refugees making a difference
Three–times–refugee, Michael Loguya, is changing lives in the North of Uganda. His small–scale embroidery factory is offering life–skills to mostly young...