By Abubaker Mayemba
  
On 13 April, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) held a consultative meeting on taking a coordinated approach to serving urban refugees and migrants.

The stakeholder meeting at Serena hotel was supported by IOM Uganda’s Strengthening Social Cohesion and Stability in Slum Populations project, which is funded by the European Union.

In attendance were members of the diplomatic corps, development partners, United Nations agencies, NGOs dealing with migrants and refugees, and officials from the central and local governments.

Since 01 January 2018, more than 46,000 Congolese have fled to Uganda, escaping ethnic clashes in their homeland. The scale of this crisis can be seen in the fact by comparison, for the whole of 2017, the number of new Congolese refugees that crossed into Uganda was 43,908.
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is one of the organizations responding to the emergency.

By Richard M Kavuma

One of the standout community volunteers among South Sudanese refugees in Palorinya settlement in Moyo district is Ababa James Oful.

James has endured many ups and downs in his life. Now 25, he joined the South Sudan police in 2010, after dropping out of school in Senior 2. But in August 2011, his police patrol vehicle was involved in an accident that cost him his left leg. He was treated in Nairobi hospital and returned to work in Juba – war forced him to seek refuge in Uganda.

Funded by European Union Humanitarian Aid, IOM has launched a fresh round of construction of Sanitation facilities for refugees and host communities in Moyo and Yumbe districts.

The sites for the facilities were last week handed over to the contractors in the presence of Government and local leaders, beneficiaries and development partners.