Uganda Assisting with Kenyan Refugees

The Uganda government and humanitarian agencies in the country say their resources are being stretched by the continued influx of Kenyans fleeing the violence in their country to the displaced persons camps set up in Uganda’s border districts.

By last week, according to official statistics from Ugandan authorities, more than 6,000 Kenyans had been registered in the five eastern Uganda settlement centres – Busia, Malaba, Lwakhakha, Bukwo and Kapchorwa – a figure six times that registered by the end of the first week of violence.

Ugandan authorities said that although fewer people have been crossing over from Kenya in the past week following a reduction in the violence, many of those who had anticipated a quick resolution to the crisis were now reporting to the settlement centres after running out of resources to maintain themselves outside the camps. Click here for the full story.

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