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Afghan refugees arrive in Uganda – foreign ministry

The Government of the Republic of Uganda this morning received Fifty One (51) evacuees from Afghanistan who arrived aboard a privately chartered flight at the Entebbe International Airport,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

A flight carrying Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country touched down early on Wednesday in Uganda where they will be given temporary refuge, government and diplomatic officials said.

The Government of the Republic of Uganda this morning received Fifty One (51) evacuees from Afghanistan who arrived aboard a privately chartered flight at the Entebbe International Airport,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

It said it followed a request from the US government to temporarily host “at-risk” Afghan nationals and others who are in transit to the US and other destinations worldwide.

The US embassy in Kampala thanked Uganda for its “generosity and hospitality toward these communities”.

The Government of Uganda and the Ugandan people have a long tradition of welcoming refugees and other communities in need,” the embassy posted on Twitter.

Uganda hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world – nearly 1.5 million according to the UN, mainly from neighbouring South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Most live in large refugee settlements in the sparsely populated north of the country but around 81 000 urban refugees live in the capital Kampala.

Aid agencies have repeatedly said that the international response to support refugees in Uganda, a country of about 44 million people, has been underfunded.

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