THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday said it is failing to find third countries willing to accept Rwandese refugees currently in Uganda.

The UNHCR country representative, Saihou Saidy, was briefing journalists with the visiting UNHCR deputy high commissioner, Mary Ann Wyrsch. The meeting took place at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel.

Saidy said the Rwandese refugees in Uganda were a source of discomfort, "The Rwandese refugees in Uganda are a source of irritation between the two governments," he said.

"we are failing to find third countries to resettle them," Saidy added.

He, however, said the problem was not the refugees in protected camps but the other Rwandese who have fallen out of favour with their home government and are now living Uganda without registering with UNHCR.

Saidy said those are not refugees because the UNHCR has not screened them to establish the truth of their claims. He said after an inter-governmental meeting in Kabale, Uganda and Rwanda asked UNHCR to find third countries for bonafide refugees.