TEHRAN, June 24, YJC - African leaders and donors meeting in Kampala have pledged $358 million to support refugees in Uganda as the country faces the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis. The funding will help meet the needs of the rapidly-surging population of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda.
TEHRAN, June 6, YJC - Rise in the number of South Sudan migrants fleeing to Uganda due to war and insecurity have caused the largest immigration crisis in Africa.
Every day, thousands of South Sudan refugees pass the border and reach Uganda. War and famine and drought have made life in South Sudan quite difficult.
An influential US lawmaker on Tuesday proposed withholding aid to Uganda after the African nation's president signed a controversial new measure imposing life prison sentences for homosexuals.