Boroli is located in Adjumani district and has a surface area of 103 hectares. Boroli I first opened on the 1st January 2014 and its extension, Boroli II, was established and opened in 2015. The vast ...

Isingiro district, in southwestern Uganda, hosts around 114,6221 refugees in two of the country's oldest refugee settlements, Nakivale and Oruchinga. Both settlements were established in the late 1950...

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...

Adjumani district, in the West Nile region, hosts the highest number of refugee settlements (18) in the country, accommodating around 203,671 refugees. Some settlements were established in the 1980s d...

Imvepi opened in February 2017 to accommodate South Sudanese refugees after the Palorinya settlement in Moyo district quickly reached its full capacity. Although the settlement no longer receives new ...

Oliji settlement was established on 1 January 1991 in Adjumani district hosting primarily South Sudanese refugees fleeing the Second Sudanese War that broke out in the 1980s as well as the newer wave ...

After opening in January 2014, Nyumanzi has become the largest refugee settlement in Adjumani district in terms of population size. Despite their relatively recent arrival, residents are already well-...

Opened in July 2016, Pagirinya settlement hosts more than 32,000 refugees displaced from South Sudan. The humanitarian response across all sectors has now stabilized and is beginning to shift beyond e...

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...

Originally closed in 2006 after many South Sudanese refugees returned home, Olua I/II were reopened in 2012 to host another influx of South Sudanese refugees fleeing inter-communal violence