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Uganda/Rwanda: Halt Forced Returns of Refugees - HRW
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Date: 17 Jul 2010
Source: Human Rights Watch
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UN criticises Uganda for expelling Rwandan refugees
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Source: Reuters * Uganda expels 1,700 Rwandan refugees * UN refugee agency deplores brutal operation GENEVA, July 16 (Reuters) - Uganda forcibly returned 1,700 Rwandans seeking shelter in the East African ...

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UNHCR deplores forced returns from Uganda, police brutality
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Source: UNHCR UNHCR deplores this week's forced returns of Rwandans from Uganda. On Wednesday 14 July, Ugandan police mounted an operation to round up and deport some 1,700 people from the Nakivale and Kyaka ...

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Clothes and blanket donations reach displaced families in Uganda
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World Concern - USA A shipping container filled with soft organic flannel baby blankets and new clothing is being unpacked in Uganda now, having made the voyage half way around the world from Seattle. The donated ...

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UNHCR field offices reporting rise in LRA attacks, displacement in CAR
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Source: UNHCR UNHCR is alarmed by reports we are receiving from our field offices of a dramatic rise in the frequency and brutality of attacks by the the Ugandan armed group known as the Lord's Resistance Army ( ...

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The Commission allocates 6 million euros to support Internally Displaced people in Uganda
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Source: ECHO The European Commission is providing 6 million euros to bring humanitarian assistance to the internally displaced people (IDP's) in Uganda

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Thousands Displaced by Flooding and Mudslides in Uganda
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Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International SILVER SPRING, Md.--Deadly landslides and heavy flooding in eastern Uganda displaced thousands of local residents prompting the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) to respond, the agency ...

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UGANDA: Innocent Rokundo, "Will they send me home?"
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Source: IRIN Innocent Rokundu, 42, is a Rwandan who has lived in a refugee camp in western Uganda for the past 15 years. He fled his country during the 1994 genocide with his wife. She returned to Rwanda in 1996, but he has had no contact with her since.

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RWANDA-UGANDA: Pherebonia Nyiramatabaro, "We are treated like animals"
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Source: IRIN All Pherebonia Nyiramatabaro, 85, wants is land where she and her 15-year-old grandson can grow a few crops. Nyiramatabaro, living in a two-roomed hut in Juru A camp in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement, southwestern Uganda, is one of thousands of Rwandans hit by a Uganda government directive barring refugees from cultivation.

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UGANDA: One doctor for 16,200 refugees
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Source: IRIN Inadequate healthcare is just one of many challenges facing the 16,200 refugees in this sprawling camp in western Uganda, which is served by a single doctor.

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UNHCR welcomes first ratification of AU Convention for displaced
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Source: UNHCR UNHCR warmly welcomes the Republic of Uganda's ratification of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention). This ...

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Uganda: ICRC distributes seed to 58,000 returnees
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Kampala (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today launched its last seed distribution in northern Uganda. Just ahead of the new planting season, over 58,000 formerly displaced people will be benefiting from the operation. Each family is to receive 28 kg of groundnut, cereal and vegetable seed, which is enough to plant approximately 1 hectare of land.

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Uganda: ICRC distributes seed to 58,000 returnees
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Kampala (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today launched its last seed distribution in northern Uganda. Just ahead of the new planting season, over 58,000 formerly displaced people will be benefiting from the operation. Each family is to receive 28 kg of groundnut, cereal and vegetable seed, which is enough to plant approximately 1 hectare of land.

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Uganda: ICRC distributes seed to 58,000 returnees
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Date: 15 Feb 2010
Source: ICRC
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Water, water everywhere, but not all of it fit to drink for returnees in northern Uganda
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Source: UNHCR UNHCR and its partners have been building protected water sources in northern Uganda to help ensure the sustainable return of thousands of people to their homes.

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AU Summit on forced displacement to adopt groundbreaking convention
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Source: UNHCR In Kampala, Uganda, African leaders are expected to sign today a groundbreaking legal framework that for the first time codifies the rights of people displaced within their own countries. If ...

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AFRICA: Talking about forced displacement
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Source: IRIN Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa and a declaration on refugees, returnees and IDPs.

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Uganda: Aid partners must redouble commitment to help most vulnerable IDPs return home - UN humanitarian chief
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Date: 21 Oct 2009
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Ministers meet in Kampala ahead of African Union summit on displaced people
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Source: UNHCR Government ministers from across Africa gather in Kampala, Uganda, to address the challenges of forced displacement confronting the continent.

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UGANDA: Camp closures worry HIV-positive IDPs
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Source: IRIN The imminent closure of internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in northern Uganda is causing concern among HIV-positive residents, who fear they may not have access to vital health services when they return to their villages.

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