This archive report was first published on 3 January 2020.
Published on January 3, 2020, a senior government official in Uganda revealed that over 300 people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have fled to Uganda over the past month.
The refugees are fleeing renewed tribal clashes in Ituri Province in eastern DRC, according to Samuel Araali Kisembo, the resident district commissioner for Kikuube and Hoima districts in western Uganda.
"We are working with the local leadership, the Office of Prime Minister and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to direct these people to the reception centre at Sebigoro," Kisembo said.
Uganda, which hosts over 1.36 million refugees, mostly from neighbouring South Sudan, DRC and Burundi, is the third largest refugee-hosting country in the world.
