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@RefugeesMedia - 01/04/2022
As people arrived in Uganda on 28 and 29 March, artillery fire and gunshots could be heard from across the border, indicating that clashes were ongoing. Six people arrived with gunshot wounds and were taken for treatment.
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@RefugeesMedia - 01/04/2022
Nearly 36,000 displaced within the DRC. Most are accommodated by host families, in markets and schools. Security conditions make it difficult to reach the affected, taskforce led jointly by UNHCR and WFP e is being established to organize the delivery of humanitarian assistance
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@RefugeesMedia - 01/04/2022
Thousands of children, women, and men have arrived from Rutchuru territory in the DRC, some 8 kilometres from the Bunagana border crossing in Uganda’s Kisoro district.
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@RefugeesMedia - 01/04/2022
UNHCR, alongside the Government of Uganda and humanitarian partners, is assisting some 10,000 refugees in the country’s southwest Kisoro district after they fled violent clashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which began on 28 March 2022
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@RefugeesMedia - 01/04/2022
Thousands flee into Uganda following clashes in DR Congo https://t.co/aqBtLUgRoh via @refugees
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
The Regional Interagency Coordination Platform for refugees and migrants from Venezuela (R4V) launched a US$1.79 billion regional plan for 2022 to support the increasing needs of refugees and migrants from Venezuela and their host communities across 17 countries in the region.
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
There are over six million refugees and migrants from Venezuela around the world. The vast majority – nearly five million – reside in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
Only a comprehensive regional approach can adequately respond to the needs of people on the move.
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
We also encourage host countries to maintain access to asylum procedures, expand regular stay arrangements for refugees and migrants in vulnerable situations, and provide protection and assistance according to need
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
UNHCR and IOM call for increased support and investments in host communities to strengthen services that benefit both refugees and migrants as well as the local population.
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