Alere was established on 12 June 1990 in Adjumani District and has a surface area of 119 hectares. The settlement has hosted South Sudanese refugees fleeing the Second Sudanese War as well as more rec...

Isingiro district, in southwestern Uganda, hosts around 114,6221 refugees in two of the country's oldest refugee settlements, Nakivale and Oruchinga. Both settlements were established in the late 1950...

Baratuku, initially established in 1991, has hosted successive waves of South Sudanese refugees since the Second Sudanese War. The settlement’s current population is comprised of South Sudanese refuge...

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...

After opening in January 2014, Nyumanzi has become the largest refugee settlement in Adjumani district in terms of population size. Despite their relatively recent arrival, residents are already well-...

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...

Rwamwanja settlement was established in 1964 to host refugees from Rwanda and closed in 1995 when many repatriated. It reopened in 2012 to host refugees fleeing insecurity in DRC due to violence in No...

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

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...