A struggle to boost food security in Bidibidi refugee settlement
Some refugees and members of refugees-host community of Uganda’s largest refugee settlement, Bidibidi, are supported to produce their own food. UNHCR,...
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...
The Walking school bus introduces Simbi to supplement textbooks in schools.
Text books alongside other
scholastic materials are the basic requirement for establishing a learning
centre. In some westnile districts of Arua...
Creating self-reliance for both refugees and host communities, in Uganda
Whilst budgets of humanitarian agencies that are working with refugees shrink, designing ingenious ways of helping over one million displaced people...
‘Beled ‘na awel’, meaning our country (South Sudan) come first – refugee youth leader.
Upon outbreak of the first wave of recent South Sudan’s violent conflict, in 2013, a-24-year old John Jal Adek fled the...
The scourge of malaria takes its toll on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs,) in South...
Medics say they have managed to contain the situation. But they warn lives could still be lost from other hygienically related...
Refugees: There is no Advanced level of education
An education response plan launched by Uganda and development partners in 2018 indicated that 57% of refugee children and 34% of...
Coronavirus: Disturbing cross border travels amidst lockdown
Authorities in Northern Uganda blame cross border travels, during countrywide lockdown, on populations living along porous South Sudan-Uganda border area. They...
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...
Local solutions for local problems
After insurgences, Northern region of Uganda appears peaceful. But Gender based violence is silently eating families up – and no one...