Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement

Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement is a refugee camp in Bweyale in Kiryandongo district Uganda.

Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement
Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement
Coordinates: 1.957°N 32.181°E / 1.957; 32.181

It is a home for refugees from Burundi,DR Congo,Rwanda, Kenya and South Sudan[1]

History

The Kiryandongo area was first used for resettling refugees in 1954 [3]when the British colonial administration asked the Bunyoro Native Government to give the Colonial Government of the Governor to move Kenyan refugees fleeing the Mau Mau Uprising to Kigumba in what was then Masindi District. The Bunyoro Native Government gave land to the Governor for the period of 49 years. During the Idi Amin administration, the land was part of a large-scale government ranching scheme, of which reminders remain today in the names of the subdivisions of the camp. This left the land sparsely populated.[4]

In 1990 the Ugandan government gazetted the virtually uninhabited land around Kiryandongo for refugee resettlement. Ethnic Acholi people fleeing the Sudan People's Liberation Army from Parjok in South Sudan were settled in Kiryandongo after temporarily being held in Kitgum and Masindi. During the 1990s the Sudanese refugees were joined by Ugandan Acholi IDPs from the LRA-affected areas of Gulu and Kitgum[4]

Kiryandongo also served as an interim stop for displaced people transiting to other camps, including 22,000 who moved from the Achol-Pii Refugee Settlement to Kyangwali in 2002.[5]

References
  1. Kibego, John (6 August 2014). "Uganda: Kenyan Refugees Demand to Go Home". The Observer. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  2. "Uganda Refugee Response Monitoring Settlement Fact Sheet: Kiryandongo (January 2018) - Uganda". ReliefWeb. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  3. Kintz, Carrie (2019-01-08). "The History of the Kiryandongo Refugee Camp • With Open Eyes". With Open Eyes. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  4. Kaiser, Tania (October 2000). "UNHCR's withdrawal from Kiryandongo: anatomy of a handover" (PDF). New Issues in Refugee Research. Geneva: UNHCR (32). ISSN 1020-7473. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  5. Mutuli, Milicent (9 September 2002). "Displaced refugees in Uganda start move to permanent site". UNHCR. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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