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Bidibidi Refugee Settlement is a refugee camp located in Yumbe District's West Nile sub-Region in Uganda. It is one of the world’s largest refugee settlements , housing approximately 285,000 refugees fleeing conflict in South Sudan as of late 2016.
Nyarugusu refugee camp was created by the UNHCR and the Tanzanian government in November 1996 [2] [4] after an estimated 150,000 Congolese refugees from the eastern Sud-Kivu region of the DRC crossed the border into Tanzania escaping civil war. Many Congolese refugees remained in the camp for decades, although the population of the camp was ...
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] Kiyaka II also receives a lot of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, such as the group of people called Ba Gegere Bahema, arrived in 2002-2008.
Dadaab (Somali: Dhadhaab) is a semi-arid town in Garissa County, Kenya.It is the site of a UNHCR base hosting 302,805 registered refugees and asylum seekers as of 31 October 2023, [1] in four camps (Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo, and Ifo 2), [2] making it one of the largest in the world behind Kutupalong refugee camp.
The Think Humanity Health Centre Kyangwali, a remarkable facility, was established in May 2012. Situated just 7 km outside of Kyangwali Refugee Settlement Camp, it serves as a vital healthcare hub where the majority of patients who attend their health days are women, seeking treatment for a range of conditions such as malaria, typhoid, brucellosis, urinary tract infections (UTIs), respiratory ...
Nakivale refugee settlement was established in 1958 and officially recognized as a refugee settlement in 1960 through the Uganda Gazette General Notice No. 19. [4] [5] Nakivale refugee settlement is the 8th largest refugee camp in the world. [6] Nakivale refugee settlement, is approximately 200 km away from Kampala, Uganda's capital. [4]
Buduburam is a refugee camp located 44 kilometers (27 mi) west of Accra, Ghana.It is along the Accra-Cape Coast Highway. [1] Opened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1990, the camp is home to more than 12,000 refugees from Liberia who fled their country during the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) and the Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003). [2]
The Zamzam refugee camp is one of the largest internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Sudan, located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Al-Fashir, North Darfur. It was established in 2004 to accommodate the massive influx of people displaced by the war in Darfur. As of now, the camp houses approximately 500,000 displaced individuals. [1]