Germany withholds aid money from Uganda over ‘lost’ funds
South Sudanese refugees look on as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees visits the Nyumanzi transit centre in Adjumani, north of Kampala in 2016. By 2017, Uganda was hosting one of the largest numbers of refugees in the world. PHOTO | ISAAC KASAMANI | AFP
In 2018, the United Nations found that millions of dollars of aid money had been stolen in Uganda. Now Germany has partially stopped its funding in a bid to force Uganda to speed up investigations.
The German government announced Friday that it was withholding Ush400 billion ($106 million) of the funds it had promised Kampala for refugee resettlement annually.
