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Japan donates $3m to UNHCR's peace-building efforts in Liberia
9 Mar 2005 The funds will go towards community empowerment projects, shelter and agricultural interventions, and emergency rehabilitation efforts. These are all part of UNHCR's peace-building project to promote peaceful co-existence in areas of return. -
Ugandan settlement struggles to accommodate new arrivals from DRC
25 Feb 2005 Refugees in the Kyaka II settlement in Uganda have rallied to help UNHCR and other aid agencies accommodate thousands of their compatriots who have recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
Japanese actress highlights refugee plight at Kenya camp
25 Jan 2005 Top Japanese actress Rei Kikukawa has appealed for more assistance to the children and refugees of Kenya's Dadaab camp during a recent visit to raise awareness of their plight among the Japanese public. -
UNHCR providing emergency aid for desperate Congolese refugees
19 Jan 2005 The refugee agency is organizing the distribution of vital relief items and emergency assistance to more than 10,000 Congolese refugees just arrived into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. One of UNHCR's priorities is to ensure the safety of the refugees and to move them away from the border area. -
Nearly 20,000 refugees flee eastern Congo for Uganda
14 Jan 2005 More than 19,000 Congolese refugees - many in poor health - have fled ethnic clashes in eastern DRC. The UN refugee agency is preparing to move many of them to settlements further inland, where they can receive medical care, food and shelter. -
Sudanese influx could overstretch Uganda's resources, warns UNHCR
19 Nov 2004 In the last month alone, some 3,200 refugees have fled south Sudan and arrived in northern Uganda, a country already hosting the largest concentration of south Sudan's refugees in Africa. -
Refugee kids continue lessons in Uganda's schools
9 Aug 2004 Education does not end with exile. In fact, it starts in exile for many of the over 65,000 primary school-aged refugee children in northern Uganda. Even after they have been displaced by Uganda's own civil conflict, these refugee kids are given access to free primary education alongside local students. -
Sudanese women seek to bring democracy back up the river
5 Aug 2004 As peace edges closer in southern Sudan, refugee women in Uganda wonder if the democratic freedoms - education, decision-making powers - they enjoy under UNHCR's protection will continue when they return to Sudan. -
Aid on the way for displaced Sudanese refugees in Uganda
7 May 2004 More than 31,000 Sudanese refugees have been registered since fleeing rebel raids on their settlements in northern Uganda. UNHCR and its partner agencies plan to start distributing food and relief items this weekend.