Shrinking land opens new challenge facing South Sudanese refugees
Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan queue to be registered at Kuluba, north of the capital Kampala. Uganda currently hosts more than a million South Sudanese refugees. PHOTO FILE | AFP
As the South Sudanese refugee population in Uganda surges, each day comes with a fresh crisis that tests their hosts’ generosity, UN agencies and other charitable organisations providing the basic resources to keep the asylum seekers going.
Long praised as a model country for its refugee policy that allows asylum seekers access to land, work and to operate business, Uganda is now clearly feeling the strain after the number of South Sudan refugee crossed the one million mark last month.
