By Ella Ide Islanders on Europe’s southern edge have become used to tragedy and trauma, they see it every day in the thousands of asylum seekers who land on their shores — and they say they have had enough. The locals of the remote fishing community on Lampedusa island …
Read More »Brazil contributes food worth sh2.5bn to Ugandan refugees
By Julius Businge The Government of Brazil has made its first contribution to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Uganda of 2,000 metric tons of rice worth about US$1 million (over sh2.5bn) to cater for 155,000 refugees in Uganda. WFP said in a statement released on March 20 …
Read More »U.S mission donates $12mn to refugees in Uganda
By Independent reporter The U.S. Mission to Uganda has announced a donation of $12 million to the UN World Food Program (WFP) Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation in support of refugees in Uganda and the chronically food-insecure people in the Karamoja region, it said in a Jan. 17 statement. It said the U.S. …
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