Agojo opened in 2016 in response to the influx of South Sudanese refugees. It was established in order to ease the congestion at Nyumanzi Transit Centre, which was severely overstretched at the time. ...

Alere was established on 12 June 1990 in Adjumani District and has a surface area of 119 hectares. The settlement has hosted South Sudanese refugees fleeing the Second Sudanese War as well as more rec...

Baratuku, initially established in 1991, has hosted successive waves of South Sudanese refugees since the Second Sudanese War. The settlement’s current population is comprised of South Sudanese refuge...

Bidibidi settlement was established in September 2016 to host the rapid influx of South Sudanese refugees, primarily arriving from the Greater Equatoria region. The settlement population increased rap...

Elema was established in 1992, and is entirely comprised of refugees from the Kuku tribe of South Sudan. Following a UNHCR-led repatriation of South Sudanese refugees in 2008 from Uganda, the Kuku eth...

Kiryandongo refugee settlement, originally established in 1990, was re-opened in 2014 during the South Sudanese emergency and now hosts almost 60,000 refugees. The majority of refugees are from South ...

Kyangwali settlement hosts more than 83,000 refugees. Due to its geographical location, Congolese refugees form the majority of the population. Refugees also come from Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, So...

Lobule refugee settlement was established in September 2013 and hosts over 4,600 refugees from DRC fleeing the insurgency in their country. Refugees are settled in two zones (A and B), with each hosti...

Originally established in 1997 to receive refugees fleeing the Second Sudanese Civil War, Maaji settlement II and III were re-opened in 2015 to host new refugee arrivals from South Sudan . While the s...

Mungula has consistently hosted South Sudanese refugees since it was first established in 1996. As a result, there are close linkages between settlement residents and the neighbouring host community