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Kyaka II Refugee Settlement is a refugee camp in
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After this movement, Kyaka I was closed. Around mid-December 2017, renewed violence in DRC -
Kyegegwa District
Kyegegwa District is a district in Western Region of Uganda. The town of Kyegegwa hosts the district headquarters.
Location
Kyegegwa District is bordered by Kibaale District to the north, Mubende District to the east, Kiruhura District to the s ...
in western Uganda.
Background
Kyaka II refugee settlement was established in 2005 to receive the remaining population of Kyaka I following the mass repatriation of Rwandan refugees the same year. Text was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International License
After this movement, Kyaka I was closed. Around mid-December 2017, renewed violence in DRC -
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
led to a new refugee influx into Uganda, with an estimated 17,000 new refugee arrivals in Kyaka II.
Since December 2017, Kyaka II’s refugee population has quadrupled, following the arrival of tens of thousands of refugees from DRC fleeing conflict and inter-ethnic violence in North Kivu and Ituri. There are more than 113,000 refugees already living in the settlement. Kyaka II is managed by the UNHCR
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...
and the Ugandan Office of the Prime Minister's Department of Refugees (OPM).
Geography
Kyaka II encompasses 81.5 square kilometres in the three sub counties of Mpara, Kyegegwa and Kabweza in the eponymousKyaka
Kyaka is a town in Tanzania. It is an urban centre in Missenyi District, Kagera Region. The population of Kyaka was estimated at 6,000 people in 2015.
Location
Kyaka is located in Missenyi District, in Kagera Region, in northwestern Tanzania, ...
county. The settlement is divided into nine zones: Sweswe, Buliti, Bukere, Mukondo, Ntababiniga, Kakoni, Bwiriza, Byabakora and Kaborogota.
Health care
Over 140,000 refugees visit Bujiubuli Health Centre III for medical treatment.See also
Kyegegwa District
Kyegegwa District is a district in Western Region of Uganda. The town of Kyegegwa hosts the district headquarters.
Location
Kyegegwa District is bordered by Kibaale District to the north, Mubende District to the east, Kiruhura District to the s ...
UNHCR
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...
References
{{reflist Refugee camps in Uganda Kyegegwa District Populated places in Uganda