Today's Headlines
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- Taking Up a Women's Agenda
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- Free Movement of People Too, Not Just Goods and Capital
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The East African Standard (Nairobi)
April 21, 2008
News Article By Osinde Obare And Stephen Makabila
More than 200 Kenyan refugees camping at the Mulanda transit centre in Uganda, will be moved to Kiryandongo camp in Masindi District.
Tororo Resident DC, Mr Mpimbaza Hashaka, said only 14 refugees volunteered to return to Kenya, while more than 1,803 insisted on staying at Mulanda in Tororo.
"Those who want to remain in Tororo said the situation home had not improved. Some say they still need to closely monitor events at home," the RDC said.
Ugandan authorities have secured 100 acres of land in Mulanda to temporarily settle Kenyans so that they could produce their own food.
Hashaka said they were still hosting 2,017 refugees at Mulanda.
Meanwhile, an Anglican Bishop has challenged the coalition Government to help the Kenyan refugees in Uganda to return home.
Bishop Beneah Salala of Mumias Diocese said the refugees should not be left to suffer yet peace had been restored.
"Let the new Cabinet make the return of the refugees in Uganda and their re-settlement a matter of priority to ease the human suffering they are under-going," said Salala.
