The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is in Uganda to discuss the South Sudan refugee crisis. 

Filippo Grandi will visit the northern district of Adjumani to get a better understanding of the emergency response to the recent mass influx of new arrivals. 

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR estimates up to 90,000 South Sudanese have fled into neighbouring Uganda since fresh violence erupted in Juba last month. 

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

Meanwhile UNHCR this month started a relocation exercise of refugees in Adjumani to Bidi-bidi settlement in Uganda’s Yumbe district.

The relocation is to decongest the Pagrinya settlement in Adjumani district, where more than 40 cholera cases were reported.

Solomon Osakana, a Refugee Desk Officer in Arua district, said the Uganda ministry of health intervened to control the outbreak.

“It is not as bad as it was projected; it was mostly in Pagirinya settlement and most of those refugees have been relocated to Yumbe,” Osakana explained. 

The new arrivals are being handed settlement packages that include food, shelter, mosquito nets and farming implements.