Uganda: Countries Fail to Honour Uganda Refugee Funds Pledges

The failure by the international community to honour financial pledges made to Uganda during a Solidarity Summit on Refugees is hindering the country's ability to look after them, authorities have said. There are at least 1.5 million refugees in Uganda, the majority from South Sudan.

President Yoweri Museveni together with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres hosted the Solidarity Summit in Kampala in June 2017 to help raise money to support the high number of refugees that the country was receiving from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.

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