Kyaka II Refugee Settlement

Kyaka II Refugee Settlement is a refugee camp in Kyegegwa District in western Uganda.[1]

Kyaka II
Refugee Camp
Kyaka II is located in Uganda
Kyaka II
Kyaka II
Coordinates: 0.48°N 31.05°E / 0.48; 31.05
Country Uganda
Area
 • Total81.5 km2 (31.5 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total28,175
 • Density350/km2 (900/sq mi)

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.[2] After this movement, Kyaka I was closed. Around mid-December 2017, renewed violence in DRC - Democratic Republic of Congo led to a new refugee influx into Uganda, with an estimated 17,000 new refugee arrivals in Kyaka II.[2]

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.[3] There are more than 113,000 refugees already living in the settlement. Kyaka II is managed by the UNHCR and the Ugandan Office of the Prime Minister's Department of Refugees (OPM).[4]

Geography

Kyaka II encompasses 81.5 square kilometres in the three sub counties of Mpara, Kyegegwa and Kabweza in the eponymous Kyaka county. The settlement is divided into nine zones: Sweswe, Buliti, Bukere, Mukondo, Ntababiniga, Kakoni, Bwiriza, Byabakora and Kaborogota.[4]

Health care

Over 140,000 refugees visit Bujiubuli Health Centre III for medical treatment.[5]

See also

Kyegegwa District

UNHCR

References
  1. "Uganda". DRC Regional Refugee Response Information Sharing Portal. UNHCR. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  2. "Kyaka II Settlement HLP Factsheet 2019". UNHCR Operational Data Portal (ODP). Retrieved 2020-09-23. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International License.
  3. Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "UNHCR takes donors to Kyaka II settlement as flow of DRC refugees continues". UNHCR. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  4. Kyaka II Fact Sheet 2014 (Report). UNHCR. 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  5. Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "UNHCR takes donors to Kyaka II settlement as flow of DRC refugees continues". UNHCR. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
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