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UNHCR takes on new role protecting Ugandans displaced by civil war
22 May 2006 In a departure from its usual role of aiding refugees, the UN refugee agency has selected three African countries as pilots for a new involvement with internally displaced people. Uganda's 1.5 million people displaced by a rebellion by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army, will be among the first beneficiaries. -
Singing and dancing greets the first South Sudanese refugees to return home from Uganda
3 May 2006 Welcomed home by singing and cheering compatriots, the first Sudanese refugees returning to South Sudan from years of exile in Uganda complete the two-day journey to their villages. -
First convoy of Sudanese refugees from Uganda arrives in South Sudan
2 May 2006 The first convoy carrying southern Sudanese refugees home from exile in Uganda arrives to a warm welcome in the town of Kadjo Keji. UNHCR expects to take hundreds more refugees home before the onset of the rainy season in June. -
Sudanese refugees from Uganda prepare to go home
26 Apr 2006 The first group of Sudanese refugees from Uganda are on a three-day "go-and-see" visit to their original villages in South Sudan. The trip follows an official visit to Uganda last week by people from their home district who, now that the war is over, are eager to welcome their fellow Sudanese back home. -
Return home now possible for South Sudan's refugees in Uganda
27 Mar 2006 More than half of the South Sudanese refugees who remain in exile in neighbouring countries have the possibility of returning home this year if the security situation allows, after a repatriation agreement was signed by the governments of Uganda and Sudan and the UN refugee agency on Monday. -
UNHCR moves Congolese refugees away from the border to Ugandan settlements
26 Jan 2006 The UN refugee agency moves some 1,100 Congolese refugees who fled to Uganda last week following fighting in their homeland to two refugee settlements a safe distance from the border. -
UNHCR prepares to move new Congolese arrivals inland in Uganda
24 Jan 2006 The UN refugee agency is making preparations to move several thousand new Congolese refugees - who fled fighting in eastern DRC - into a refugee settlement at a safe distance from the border inland in Uganda, while others are going home of their own accord. -
UNHCR worried about instability in eastern DRC as newest refugees return home
23 Jan 2006 Some of the estimated 20,000 Congolese refugees who fled to Uganda in recent days have already started going back home, but the situation in the Kivu region of eastern DRC remains worryingly volatile. -
Ugandan police undergo special training on eliminating violence against women
30 Nov 2005 A UNHCR-sponsored training course for Ugandan police on eliminating violence against women has resulted in more understanding and solidarity with refugee women, with course participants pledging to take concrete steps in their daily duties to guard against gender violence.