United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Fillippo Grandi

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Fillippo Grandi has appealed to the international community to double their effort in bringing the conflict in South Sudan to an end because the war is contributing to the largest influx of refugees.

Addressing a joint press conference with the Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda on the situation of refugees in the country recently,Grand said that the UN refugee appeal for South Sudanese refugees regionally has not attracted enough funding from the international community, yet they are the ones who need  urgent support. .
Grand also commended Uganda for its reception to the refugees but urged Government to continue playing its role in pursuing peace in South Sudan.

However Rugunda said that Uganda will continue welcoming refugees with or without any support from Europe.

According to statistics, at the end of last year, Uganda was the eighth largest refugee hosting country in the world, and so far 163,000 refugees have arrived in the country fleeing war in South Sudan, DRC, Burundi among others only this year.

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We are told that hundreds of refugees are flocking into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following heavy fighting there since last Friday. Sources in DRC also tell us that some DRC soldiers threw their guns to the rebels and ran away for their dear lives.

One of the groups giving Joseph Kabila’s soldiers sleepless nights is called the Mai Mai rebels. The Mai Mai fighters attacked the Congolese towns of Lubiriha and Kasindi last Thursday night and the fighting has gone on till now.

Reports from DRC indicate that the Mai Mai rebels who attacked the border towns of Lubiriha and Kasindi have a bigger supporter in eastern DR Congo.

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The Uganda and UN officials will meet in Entebbe next week to discuss how their secrets ended up leaking to the press.

The UN officials will also use the Kampala meeting to design a comprehensive regional strategy on combating the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels.

The UN meeting will take place on Thursday and Friday. The first UN meeting this year on LRA rebels took place in Kinshasha, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the month of January.

The countries directly affected by the atrocities of LRA are Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Southern Sudan and the Central African Republic.

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The business city of Tanzania was chosen by Bank of Africa to host meetings for the Bank of Africa Group countries in East and central Africa. The meetings will run this week.

Other countries scheduled to attend the meeting are Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Madagascar and Djibouti. The meetings will be presided over by the President of the Bank of Africa Group, Mohamed Bennani and the managing director of Bank of Africa Tanzania, Ammish Owusu-Amoah.

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