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Crime rates on the rise in Ugandan refugee settlements
The Ugandan police has registered an increasing crime rate in refugee settlements across Adjumani and Arua districts, following an influx of people feeling violence in South Sudan.
25.04.2024 | Adjumani, Uganda
Displaced people loading their belongings on a truck in Keri, preparing for their relocation to a refugee settlement, July 20, 2016. (photo: The Niles | Male Daniel)
The police spokesperson for the North-Western region, Josephine Angucia, says the crimes committed range from petty theft, to sexual violence and tribal fighting. “Sexual and gender-based violecne cases are very many at the camps,” she says.
Since the violent flare-up in South Sudan’s capital Juba, in July 2016, almost 100,000 South Sudanese refugees arrived in Uganda, which now hosts close to 230,000 refugees from neighbouring South Sudan.
Angucia says the Ugandan police, with the support from the Office of the Prime Minister and UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, carried out a one week community policing in the refugee settlements of Ayilo 1, Boroli, Maaji 1, Maaji 2, Pagirinya and Rhino Camp:
