UNHCR resettles 600 refugees
Sep 20, 2007
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has resettled 600 refugees at Nakivale Refugees’ Resettlement Camp in Isingiro district.
By Darious Magara
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has resettled 600 refugees at Nakivale Refugees’ Resettlement Camp in Isingiro district.
The Kisoro resident district commissioner, David Masereka, said most of the 30,000 refugees from DR Congo, who have been fleeing to Uganda since August, have trekked back home.
He added that 500 refugees were still camped at Nyakabande Refugee’s Reception Centre in Kisoro but they were also expected to return to their homes by Saturday.
The centre was hosting about 2,000 Congolese, many of them women and children.
However, some refugees cross to Bunagana at night and return home in the morning. The influx of refugees on the Ugandan side of the Bunagana border started when the Kinshasa government forces started fighting the Congolese rebels led by Gen. Laurent Nkunda.
Masereka said the security in the North Kivu province in DR Congo had returned to normal.
“The eastern part of Congo is quite safe but unpredictable,†he added.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has resettled 600 refugees at Nakivale Refugees’ Resettlement Camp in Isingiro district.
The Kisoro resident district commissioner, David Masereka, said most of the 30,000 refugees from DR Congo, who have been fleeing to Uganda since August, have trekked back home.
He added that 500 refugees were still camped at Nyakabande Refugee’s Reception Centre in Kisoro but they were also expected to return to their homes by Saturday.
The centre was hosting about 2,000 Congolese, many of them women and children.
However, some refugees cross to Bunagana at night and return home in the morning. The influx of refugees on the Ugandan side of the Bunagana border started when the Kinshasa government forces started fighting the Congolese rebels led by Gen. Laurent Nkunda.
Masereka said the security in the North Kivu province in DR Congo had returned to normal.
“The eastern part of Congo is quite safe but unpredictable,†he added.