New site for TZ returnees

Mar 20, 2002

THE Government has identified a new site on which to resettle 2,673 Ugandan returnees from Tanzania, who have been camping at Kikagati, Mbarara District, in southern Uganda, according to a senior official at the Office of the Prime Minister.

By Vision ReporterTHE Government has identified a new site on which to resettle 2,673 Ugandan returnees from Tanzania, who have been camping at Kikagati, Mbarara District, in southern Uganda, according to a senior official at the Office of the Prime Minister.Martin Owuor, assistant commissioner in the ministry of disaster preparedness, told IRIN on Monday that his office was about to complete the demarcation of a government-owned piece of land for the returnees in Kamwenge District.The people involved are part of a group of 3,027 Ugandans, mainly cattle herders, expelled from Tanzania, allegedly for voting against Tanzania’s ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party in the October 2000 elections, media reports said. CCM reportedly lost the elections in the northern Tanzanian area of Karagwe, where the Ugandan settlers lived.

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