{"id":29090,"date":"2022-04-03T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/refugee-influx-has-kisoro-close-to-splitting-at-seams"},"modified":"2022-04-03T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T16:27:39","slug":"refugee-influx-has-kisoro-close-to-splitting-at-seams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/refugee-influx-has-kisoro-close-to-splitting-at-seams","title":{"rendered":"Refugee influx has Kisoro close to splitting at seams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Thousands of Congolese refugees that pitched camp at Bunagana border town in Kisoro District for almost one week have started returning to their native country.<\/p>\n

Sunday Monitor<\/b><\/p>\n

also understands that others have voluntarily accepted to be relocated to refugee camps in Uganda.<\/p>\n

READ:<\/b><\/p>\n

More Congo refugees flee amid heavy gunfire<\/p>\n

This comes after fighting erupted between the M23 rebels and the Congolese government forces early last week.<\/p>\n

Whereas security assurances came at the backend of last week, some war-weary refugees still consider their villages in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo unsafe. Others like Juman Amaani, a boda boda operator at Kyengyerero trading centre in Bunagana Town on the Congo side, were happy to return.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not go to the refugee camps in Uganda because I am told that refugee life is not easy,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI am happy to return home with my five children and wife. Although we are not yet sure about the normalised security situation, it\u2019s better than going to the Ugandan refugee camps.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his part, Eric Mbaribuke\u2014a father of eight\u2014said he was staying put because \u201cI am tired of fleeing my home crossing into Uganda every time the rebels attack the Congolese government forces in my home area of Bunagana.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI am ready to be relocated to any refugee camp in Uganda where I can settle with my family. We shall return to Congo when it finally stabilises.\u201d<\/p>\n

ALSO READ:<\/b><\/p>\n

Congolese refugees asked to relocate to gazetted camps<\/p>\n

Abel Bizimana, the Kisoro District LC5 chairman, asked the government of Uganda to stop categorising Kisoro as a transit district.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appeal to the government to give us special funding as it does to other refugee hosting districts because the issue of Congolese refugees has now become a usual event,\u201d Mr Bizimana said.<\/p>\n

Mr Ismail Ndayambanje, the mayor of Bunagana town council in Kisoro District, said they have hosted \u201cabout 30,000 Congolese refugees for almost one week\u201d and \u201cneed support from government to fumigate and clean the classroom blocks in the eight primary schools where the Congolese refugees are being accommodated.\u201d<\/p>\n

DON’T MISS:<\/b><\/p>\n

13,000 Congolese flee to Uganda<\/p>\n

Mr Douglas Asiimwe, the acting commissioner for refugees in the office of the Prime Minister, has promised support. \u201cWe shall erect tents, put in place mobile toilets and install water tanks at Bunagana border town\u2026Government will provide all the necessities to about 3,000 Congolese refugees that voluntarily accepted to be relocated to Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro District,\u201d Mr Asiimwe revealed.<\/p>\n

[email protected]<\/b><\/p>\n

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