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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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Thousands of Ugandans return to their farms after 20 years in displaced camps
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More than a million Ugandans driven from their homes by decades of violent conflict are gradually moving back to their homeland in the north of the country thanks to an innovative United Nations-backed farming project, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said today.Original article

DR Congo: Uganda rebel attacks continue to cause large scale destruction, displacement
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Date: 28 Aug 2009
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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Uganda : Returns outpace recovery planning
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Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Since the signing of a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2006, about two thirds of the 1.8 million IDPs who lived in camps at the height of the crisis have returned to their areas of origin.

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Uganda: ICRC distributes seed to 73,000 returnees in Acholiland
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Date: 11 Aug 2009
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Uganda: ICRC distributes seed to 73,000 returnees in Acholiland
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Kampala (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a seed distribution campaign to help almost 73,000 formerly displaced people (IDPs) in northern Uganda ahead of the new planting season.

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More than 1.4 million internally displaced Ugandans head home since 2006
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Source: UNHCR Since relative peace returned to northern Uganda in 2006 after more than two decades of conflict, some 80 percent of the internally displaced civilians have returned home.

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Out of site, out of mind? Reflections on responding to displacement in DRC
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Source: Humanitarian Practice Network The vast majority of displaced people in DRC find refuge, not in camps, but with local families. In this way, the crisis in DRC differs markedly from emergencies in other parts of Africa, such as Darfur and Northern Uganda, where most displaced people have gathered in camps.

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SUDAN-UGANDA: Allan, "They call me tong-tong"
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Source: IRIN Allan (not real name) was 10 when he was abducted in 1999 by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) from a refugee camp in Adjumani, northern Uganda.

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Tanzania/Uganda: Prevent Forced Return of Refugees
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Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - The Tanzanian and Ugandan governments should ensure that refugees living in camps due to close on June 30 and 31, 2009 are not forcibly returned to their home countries and are ...

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