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Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa has called for international partnerships with Uganda’s Settlement Transformation Project (2016-2021) that aims to achieve self-reliance and local settlement of refugees. The Ugandan programme, officials say, aims to promote social development in the refugee hosting areas as a durable solution to challenges related to refugees, while protecting …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenya said on Wednesday it will delay by six months the closure of the Dadaab refugee camp, the world’s largest, after calls by the UN and aid groups to postpone it on humanitarian grounds. Interior minister Joseph Nkaissery said the move follows a request from …

UNHCR to expand cash-based assistance to vulnerable refugees after study in Uganda shows benefits to local economies Uganda has for a long time been praised for the way it treats refugees. While many countries keep refugees in camps away from citizens, the Uganda government has for decades allowed refugees to …

VIDEO: The European Commission has announced sh300 billion aid to countries that affected by the influx of South Sudan refugees. Uganda will get 30 million Euros.  The EU commissioner humanitarian aid made the revelation while on a field visit to Bidibidi refuge settlement in Yumbe district.     Share on: …

Juba, South Sudan | AFP | The UN’s special advisor on preventing genocide, Adama Dieng, said he feared escalating ethnic violence in South Sudan, as the EU offered emergency aid for the swelling number of refugees on Friday. Speaking in Yumbe in neighbouring Uganda, the EU ‘s humanitarian aid commissioner …

The European Commission will provide €78 million ($85m) in emergency aid to help those affected by the South Sudan crisis both within the country and in the region. Over one million refugees from South Sudan have fled to neighbouring countries, with the number expected to grow. There are currently two million …

UNHCR, African host countries agree on final steps to resolve Rwandan refugee situation UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and delegations from African countries as well as the African Union, have agreed on the final steps to end the protracted Rwandan refugee situation after seven years of negotiations. This was at …

United Nations, United States | AFP | US President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged countries to “welcome the stranger in our midst” at a summit that drew pledges from 50 countries to take in 360,000 refugees. Speaking at a US-led refugee summit at the United Nations, Obama praised Germany and …

  President Yoweri Museveni has urged world leaders at the United Nations Summit on Refugees to deal firmly with the causes of the crisis, stating that “it is not correct to continue treating the symptoms but not the disease itself.” Museveni told the world leaders on Tuesday that often, the refugees “are running …

The United Nation’s refugee agency UNHCR has flown over 100 tonnes of emergency relief items to Uganda to help thousands of refugees fleeing violence and human rights violations in South Sudan. The shipment contained thousands of mosquito nets, sleeping mats, plastic sheeting, kitchen sets and solar lights, which are set to …