How drug abuse is wasting refugees in Uganda
Experts warn many more refugees are likely to get wasted as drug abuse in the refugee settlements of South Sudanese, located...
Notions surrounding refugees and asylum seekers, in Uganda
International Organization for Migration (IOM) as well as UNHCR estimate 70.8 million people have been forcibly displaced due to conflicts, persecution...
South Sudanese student’s life ends in the hand of Criminals in Arua
Barifa forest in
Arua Suburb is a hideout for hard core criminals who have on several occasions
waylaid and killed people...
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...
NIRA encourages refugees to embrace civil registration
The
National Identification Registration Authority or NIRA, a body in Uganda tasked
with registration of all infants has encouraged the South...
What else for refugee girls who sell out food ration to acquire sanitary pads?
Challenges in accessing menstrual pads for girls in refugee schools across the country (Uganda), is immensely contributing to girls’...
South Sudanese refugees are returning home. What next?
South Sudan Relief and rehabilitation Commission or SSRRC say nationals who had fled the country’s conflict are spontaneously returning. Returnees are...
Plans to relocate natives of Apaa reach a deadlock
The government of Uganda is in a deadlock with the natives of Apaa – a contested area in the North of...
Arua health sector grapples with shortages of medical supplies.
Medical supplies allocated to Arua main health facilities run out long before the appointed time has come – leaving many patients...
Refugees tempted to getting more aid dubiously as UNHCR records newborns, new arrivals
UNHCR usually include new refugees into their records. Such refugees are normally new–born babies plus spontaneous new arrivals in...