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UN refugee agency chief visits Uganda over South Sudan refugee crisis

Xinhua, August 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi on Monday started a two-day visit to Uganda to discuss the South Sudan refugee crisis.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is visiting the northern Ugandan district of Adjumani to get a better understanding of the emergency response to the recent mass influx of new arrivals from South Sudan.

Grandi will later move to the Ugandan capital Kampala where he will meet top government officials on how to address the refugee crisis.

At the end of last year, Uganda was the eighth-largest refugee hosting country in the world, and already in 2016 has received an estimated 163,000 new arrivals fleeing from war and human rights violations in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and elsewhere.

The violence that broke out in South Sudan on July 8 has captured the world's attention as nearly 90,000 refugees have fled to Uganda. Endit