Nakivale is considered one of the oldest refugee settlements in Uganda. It opened in 1958 and was officially established as a settlement in 1960. Today it hosts more than 100,000 refugees from Burundi...

Mungula has consistently hosted South Sudanese refugees since it was first established in 1996. As a result, there are close linkages between settlement residents and the neighbouring host community

Mirieyi was established in January 1994 in the sub county of Ofua in Adjumani district. It has a surface area of 44 hectares and it hosts over 5,000 refugees. The settlement hosts refugees from South ...

Originally established in 1997 to receive refugees fleeing the Second Sudanese Civil War, Maaji settlement II and III were re-opened in 2015 to host new refugee arrivals from South Sudan . While the s...

Lobule refugee settlement was established in September 2013 and hosts over 4,600 refugees from DRC fleeing the insurgency in their country. Refugees are settled in two zones (A and B), with each hosti...

Kyangwali settlement hosts more than 83,000 refugees. Due to its geographical location, Congolese refugees form the majority of the population. Refugees also come from Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, So...

Kyaka II settlement was established in 2005 to receive the remaining population of Kyaka I following the mass repatriation of Rwandan refugees the same year. After this movement, Kyaka I was closed. M...

Kiryandongo refugee settlement, originally established in 1990, was re-opened in 2014 during the South Sudanese emergency and now hosts almost 60,000 refugees. The majority of refugees are from South ...

Imvepi opened in February 2017 to accommodate South Sudanese refugees after the Palorinya settlement in Moyo district quickly reached its full capacity. Although the settlement no longer receives new ...

Elema was established in 1992, and is entirely comprised of refugees from the Kuku tribe of South Sudan. Following a UNHCR-led repatriation of South Sudanese refugees in 2008 from Uganda, the Kuku eth...