Displaced people in western Uganda’s Bundibugyo District are struggling to cope with the arrival since March of some 11,000 refugees from the war-torn Ituri District of neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a report by the Kampala-based Refugee Law Project (RLP). While the refugees were initially well received, researchers had discovered growing concern among impoverished local people about the long-term feasibility of the situation, said the report. The sheer size of the refugee population relative to local people was creating a crisis in the area, it added. In Ntoroko, with a population of just 4,000, 8,000 refugees had arrived, putting tremendous pressure on scarce resources. Full Story
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