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...

Arua district, in the West Nile region, hosts around 160,040 refugees in two refugee settlements, Imvepi and Rhino Camp. While Imvepi was established in 2017 to accommodate the influx from South Sudan...

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...

Makindye Division is in the southeastern corner of the city, bordering Wakiso District to the south and west. The eastern boundary of the division is Murchison Bay, a part of Lake Victoria. Nakawa Div...

Kampala Central division comprises the central business district of Kampala and includes the areas of Old Kampala, Nakasero and Kololo. These areas are the most upscale business and residential neighb...

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...

Mirieyi was established in January 1994 in the sub county of Ofua in Adjumani district. It has a surface area of 44 hectares and it hosts over 5,000 refugees. The settlement hosts refugees from South ...

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...

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

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...