housands are crossing Lake Albert by boat to Uganda, escaping horrific inter-ethnic violence. Refugee reception centres are being overwhelmed, as emergency aid is running short. Desperate Congolese ...

More than 10,000 refugees arrived in Ishaka, about one kilometre inside the border with Western Uganda. Crossing Lake Albert in creaky boats, another group, estimated at 5,000 to 7,000, arrived by ...

KAMPALA (UNHCR) – Uganda’s Prime Minister of Uganda, Ruhakana Rugunda, reaffirmed his country’s commitment to Somali refugees during a meeting with UNHCR’s Special Envoy for the Somali Refugee ...

While these metrics matter, they don’t at all mirror the human complexity that marks the life of a refugee. Each person here carries a distinct history made by war, displacement, survival, hunger, ...

More than six disease outbreaks were reported in refugee settlements across Uganda in 2025, while stock-outs of essential medicines and medical commodities reached up to 30%, crippling health ...

PALABEK, Northern Uganda — Imagine if you were a refugee living at a makeshift settlement in a foreign country with no way to earn a steady income. Then someone promised you a life-changing ...

Around the time of my trip to northern Uganda this past November, some 21,000 night commuters trudged each twilight into Gulu, and another 20,000, aid workers said, flocked into the town of Kitgum, ...

KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...

The United States will give over $25 million in humanitarian aid to Uganda, to help the nation cope with a huge influx of refugees fleeing conflict in east Africa, the US ambassador in Kampala said ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda said on Wednesday it had recorded a 40% surge in the incidence of malaria, attributing the increase to a range of factors including a refugee influx, climate change and a ...