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Refugee Crisis in Uganda

Refugee Crisis in Uganda

Young children wait to be processed at the Busia collection point near the Uganda/South Sudan border before their final destination of the Impvepi Refugee Camp on Friday, 23 June, 2017 in Busia, Uganda. UNHCR reports 59 % of those arriving in the camps are children under the age of 18 years.

Refugees wait to be processed at the Busia collection point near the Uganda/South Sudan border divided only by a small wooden bridge before their final destination of the Impvepi Refugee Camp on Friday, 23 June, 2017 in Busia, Uganda.

The fastest growing refugee crisis in the world, Uganda is now hosting now more than 1.2 million refugees. Close to 1 million of which are from South Sudan. Recent arrivals are given temporary accommodations outside the intake center at the Imvepi Refugee camp.

Newly arrived South Sudanese refugees wait for a wheelchair at the reception center at the Imvepi Refugee camp on Friday, 23 June, 2017 in Northern Uganda.

Refugees enter the reception center at the Imvepi Refugee camp after arriving by bus from the Kuluba transit camp on Friday, 23 June, 2017 in Northern Uganda.

South Sudanese refugees arrive on a transit bus to the reception center at the Imvepi Refugee camp on Friday, 23 June, 2017 in Northern Uganda.

South Sudanese refugees wait for their intake cards while arriving on a transit bus to the reception center at the Imvepi Refugee camp on Friday, 23 June, 2017 in Northern Uganda.

A young boy waits for the monthly rations at a food distribution site at the Imvepi refugee camp in Northern Uganda as on Friday, 23 June, 2017.

Recent arrivals to the Imvepi Refugee camp are given temporary accommodations outside the reception center before receiving a designated plot of land. Refugees hang on to a transport vehicle on Friday, 23 June, 2017.

Groups gather their belongings from the back of a truck outside the reception center at the Imvepi Refugee camp on Friday, 23 June, 2017 in Northern Uganda.

A young child waits to be inoculated at the Imvepi refugee camp reception center in Northern Uganda on Friday, 23 June, 2017.

Unaccompanied minors, who fled the civil war in South Sudan, draw pictures while they wait for a visit from the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the Imvepi refugee camp reception center in Northern Uganda on 22 June, 2017. UNHCR reports that 59 percent of those arriving in the camps are children under the age of 18 years.

Gladys Joy does washing for her family of six while at the Imvepi Refugee camp in Northern Uganda on Saturday, 24 June, 2017. Gladys’ family fled their home in Yei, South Sudan after a surge in violence in March. Many of the new arrivals are from the Yei River State, know to be an ethnically diverse area and the breadbasket of South Sudan. An UNMISS Human rights reports states that the region experienced an outbreak of ethnically motivated violence in 2016, displacing 70 percent of the population.

Young boys watch over their families belongings near the reception center at the Imvepi Refugee camp on Friday, 23 June, 2017 in Northern Uganda. Recent arrivals to the camp are given temporary accommodations outside the center before receiving a designated plot of land.

Refugees divide their monthly rations at a food distribution site in the Imvepi refugee camp in Northern Uganda on Saturday, 24 June, 2017. Record numbers of South Sudanese have fled their home country crossing the border into Uganda, a country now hosting now more than 1.2 million refugees. Food shortages continue to be an issue in the camp due to the humanitarian response struggling to meet the overwhelming needs of the refugees.

Young boys gather leftover grain at a food distribution site at the Imvepi refugee camp in Northern Uganda as refugees lineup to claim their monthly rations on Saturday, 24 June, 2017.

A young man waits with his families monthly rations at a food distribution site at the Imvepi refugee camp in Northern Uganda as on Saturday, 24 June, 2017.

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