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  • Defying screams and gunfire, South Sudanese family flees to safety

    news UNHCR, 10 Oct 2017 (6 years ago )
    For four days, Milly Lagu listened to the terrifying sound of gunfire and watched flames rising from neighbouring villages. On the fifth day, the fear was too much to bear. Knowing soldiers could soon come and take away her two eldest sons, Milly and her children fled the village of Opari, South ...
  • Phone technology gives refugees in Uganda a cash lifeline

    news UNHCR, 16 Oct 2017 (6 years ago )
    BIDIBIDI, Uganda – Brian Dinga, his sister-in-law and her six children fled their South Sudanese home in September 2016 after his brother was shot dead in fighting. They trekked across the border into Uganda and were accommodated in the world’s largest refugee settlement, Bidibidi, where they str...
  • UAE, UNHCR sign US$4 million agreement for implementation of projects in Uganda

    news UAE - UNHCR, 11 Nov 2017 (6 years ago )
    The United Arab Emirates and the UN Refugees Agency have signed a US$4 million agreement to provide emergency relief to South Sudanese refugees in Uganda. The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, MoFAIC, indicated that the signing of the agreement marks the culmination o...
  • UNHCR boss praises Uganda on refugees' response

    news New Vision, 02 Dec 2017 (6 years ago )
    The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday leveled praise on Uganda’s response to the refugees whose rising numbers have put on strain on service delivery in many districts. The visiting director of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework at UNHCR in Geneva, Daniel End...
  • South Sudan refugees call for forgiveness among leaders

    news New Vision, 17 Jan 2018 (6 years ago )
    KAMPALA - A cross-section of South Sudan refugees in Uganda have called on their leaders and all nationals to forgive one another if the country is to attain lasting peace. They noted that the country can never attain peace through violence and hatred like it is today. John Oketch, a former MP...
  • Grandi praises Uganda’s ‘model’ treatment of refugees, urges regional leaders to make peace

    news UNHCR, 31 Jan 2018 (6 years ago )
    MVEPI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, Uganda – Renewing a strong appeal to regional leaders to make peace, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has praised the “open border” policy of Uganda which is currently receiving up to 500 refugees a day. Grandi who is currently on an official visit to...