Oruchinga first opened as a transit center in 1959 and officially became a settlement in 1961. It currently hosts more than 6,800 refugees from Burundi, DRC and Rwanda. The settlement is not receiving...

ESWG Meeting Minutes - 19 March 2020

Rhino Camp, originally opened in 1980, expanded in the wake of the South Sudanese civil war to host the sudden influx of refugees into northern Uganda. The settlement currently hosts more than 140,000...

Nakivale is considered one of the oldest refugee settlements in Uganda. It opened in 1958 and was officially established as a settlement in 1960. Today it hosts more than 100,000 refugees from Burundi...

Rwamwanja settlement was established in 1964 to host refugees from Rwanda and closed in 1995 when many repatriated. It reopened in 2012 to host refugees fleeing insecurity in DRC due to violence in No...

Palorinya refugee settlement was established in December 2016 and is located in Moyo district in the West Nile region of Uganda. The settlement currently hosts approximately 166,000 South Sudanese ref...

The following trends analysis is put together on the basis of available secondary data at the time of publication. It is representative of the available information and therefore indicative of mixed m...