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The average income in the Kyenjojo district in western Uganda is less than a dollar a day. Spending twice that on a single sanitary pad is an unaffordable luxury for most women.Poor women here have traditionally used softened bark cloth for pads. But with this cloth, made from ficus natalensis ...
Read Story at IPS Africa (2009-02-17)
Thousands of people displaced by wars in neighbouring Sudan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have at different times poured into Uganda to seek refuge and rebuild their lives.According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Uganda is currently hosting 18,000 refugees ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2004-04-20)
Uganda"s minister for disaster preparedness and refugees, Moses Ali, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have said they are focusing all their energies on persuading some 25,000 Rwandan refugees who have been in Uganda since 1994 that it is safe to return home, but will ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2003-11-20)
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the governments of Rwanda and Uganda signed on Thursday a tripartite agreement on the voluntary repatriation of thousands of Rwandan refugees living in Uganda, Radio Rwanda reported."We have sealed the deal, what remains now is to move into Uganda ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2003-07-24)
RWANDESE refugees in Uganda are not receiving any form of military training to destabilise their country, Ruud Lubbers, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has said. Lubbers dismissed allegations that Uganda, which is home to some 22,000 Rwandese refugees, had turned the settlements into training camps for fugitives ...
Read Story at The New Vision (2003-04-14)
An international refugee rights organisation has criticised the manner in which the Ugandan government last month carried out the relocation of Sudanese refugees from a camp in western Uganda, which ended in riots and the arrest of some refugees. The US-based Refugees International said although Uganda had a strong record ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2003-10-13)
Sudanese refugees in Uganda will be able to start returning home soon after ministers from both countries agreed to assist voluntary repatriations, Uganda"s foreign minister said on Friday. More than 200 000 Sudanese refugees live in Uganda after fleeing more than two decades of civil war in the country"s ...
Read Story at IndependentOnline (2004-04-17)
Displaced people in western Uganda’s Bundibugyo District are struggling to cope with the arrival since March of some 11,000 refugees from the war-torn Ituri District of neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a report by the Kampala-based Refugee Law Project (RLP).While the refugees were initially well received, researchers ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2003-10-29)
Rwanda is safe for refugees in Tanzania and Uganda to return home, the head of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ruud Lubbers, told IRIN on Tuesday. However, he added that any repatriation must be voluntary.Lubbers, who visited Uganda and Tanzania as part of a ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2003-04-17)
Uganda on Tuesday denied a UN claim that it deported Rwandan refugees earlier this month, stressing it had only turned away unsuccessful asylum seekers. "It is not correct that we deported Rwandan refugees," Tarsis Kabwegyere, Uganda"s minister for disaster preparedness and refugees, told journalists. On Friday the United ...
Read Story at IndependentOnline (2010-07-20)
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