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Ugandans taking advantage of camp services

    NAIROBI
    With the backing of WFP, UNHCR and the Federation, the Ugandan Red Cross is currently running a support programme for approximately 10,000 refugees in two camps about 30km from Mbarara town: one at Orukinga, housing about 6,000 refugees from Rwanda, and another at Nakivale, housing approximately 4,000 refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, DRC and Rwanda, the Federation report stated. The two camps also provide health services and - especially since a serious lack of rainfall in the area in the past three months - water supplies to Ugandan nationals from surrounding villages, it added.

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