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Mukwano Group in partnership with Livelihoods and Enterprises for Agricultural Development (LEAD), a USAID funded project is to spend Shs3.8b to improve the livelihood of the returning IDPs in Northern Uganda.
Refugee experts and activists have called for the government to speedily implement a promised special dispensation for Zimbabwean nationals.
The fragile food security situation in Akobo, Jonglei State in Southern Sudan, has been exacerbated by a huge influx of displaced people (IDPs) - including 19,000 who fled an attack in Nyandit and other villages by Murle cattle rustlers in April. Many live within the host community.
As more internally displaced persons (IDPs) flee fighting in Mogadishu for the southern coastal city of Kismayo, conditions for thousands already living there are deteriorating sharply, local sources said.
A few months ago, it was possible to buy rice, sugar and some vegetables from the main market in Akobo town, Jonglei State in Southern Sudan. For the past few weeks, however, the food stalls have been empty.
Agnes Aneno has felt the impact of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) more than any other local athlete. Her mother Agnes Lanyelo and siblings are confined in Pabor Internally Displaced People's (IDP) camp, thanks to Joseph Kony's men, who have wrecked northern Uganda with maximum brutality for the past 20 years.
The UNHCR has decried the massive displacement of civilians in Mogadishu.
Johannesburg city authorities will provide accommodation to more than 1 000 Zimbabweans illegally settled in South Africa as efforts to regularise their residence gather momentum.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will sponsor Portuguese language courses for the Angolan refugees coming from Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, with the support of Banco Espírito Santo Angola (BESA).
As more internally displaced persons (IDPs) flee fighting in Mogadishu for the southern coastal city of Kismayo, conditions for thousands already living there are deteriorating sharply, local sources said.
More than 200,000 people have now been forced to flee the Somali capital Mogadishu since fighting broke out between the Government and opposition groups in early May, in the biggest exodus from the troubled city since Ethiopian forces intervened in the Horn of Africa nation in 2007, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.
The escalating conflict in Mogadishu is having a devastating impact on the city's population causing enormous suffering and massive displacement. By yesterday, the eight-week-long offensive led by the Al-Shabab and Hisb-ul-Islam militia against government forces had driven a staggering 204,000 residents from their homes, making it the biggest exodus from the troubled Somali capital since the ...
The Gambia was recently showcased as a model in refugee and migrant integration at a high profile international conference in Cyprus, at an academic presentation by one Seyaka Sohna, a renowned Gambian academic who specialises in refugee, migration and humanitarian issues and is based in the United Kingdom.
The Zanzibar refugees in the Somali capital Mogadishu are complaining bout with out health care and livelihood difficulties, one of the refugees told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.
At least 50 representatives of Rwandan refugees living in Zambia are set to tour the country to assess the situation before reporting back to their colleagues.
Human rights groups in South Africa have slammed this weekend's arrest of more than 300 people, mainly Zimbabwean exiles, taking shelter at Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church.
Women's groups in embattled Mogadishu are stepping into the aid vacuum to assist thousands more displaced by fighting in the capital, civil society activists said.
THE hostile reception that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai received from Zimbabwean exiles in the United Kingdom demonstrated that people in the Diaspora fear that they will be forced to return home if things normalise in the country, analysts said last week.
No fewer than 28 displaced pregnant women from Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South West local government of Delta State, have delivered successfully at Ogbe-Ijoh General Hospital, since the Joint Task Force on the Niger Delta sacked them from their homes in search of militants.
The City Council of Zambia's capital Lusaka is looking forward to signing a memorandum of cooperation with Kigali City Council (KCC) during Lusaka Mayor's visit slated for August of this year.
Fighting between pro-government forces and Islamist insurgents continued for a third consecutive day in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least two dozen people and wounding scores, Radio Garowe reports.
Female internally displaced persons (IDPs) will again be able to learn job skills, take literacy classes and receive awareness programmes on reproductive health after the joint African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) helped reactivate women's centres at an IDP camp in the Sudanese region.
RWANDA'S Minister of Local Government Protais Musoni has called on refugees from his country living in Zambia to return home.
Pia Ajuwa, 62, cannot recall when she fled Southern Sudan for Uganda. A mother of six, she returned in April to find that things had changed so much, she could not tell which house was hers in Nyakuro village. Ajuwa spoke to IRIN on 30 June:
The Federal Government has dismissed a report suggesting that the military Joint Task Force (JTF) is stopping people displaced in the recent operations against militants in Niger Delta from returning.
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