Uganda: Aid Efforts to Help New Congolese Refugees in Uganda Focus On Shelter, Water Shortages

press release

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 19 July 2013, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

A week after Congolese refugees began fleeing into western Uganda, our efforts are focused on trying to reach the thousands of people still spread across the hills along the border, and simultaneously to manage the situation at an increasingly crowded transit facility some 25 kilometres deeper into Uganda.

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