page_title: Refugee crisis
section_title: Uganda
hierarchical_section_title: Refugee crisis / Modern and contemporary refugee crises / Africa / Uganda
caption_attribution_description: Picture of children displaced by the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance army of Northern Region of Uganda — into Labuje camp near Kitgum Town. Original caption: "Ugandan children suffer the most from this 18 year conflict".
context_page_description: Refugee crisis can refer to difficulties and dangerous situations in the reception of large groups of forcibly displaced persons. These could be either internally displaced, refugees, asylum seekers or any other huge groups of migrants.
  A crisis could occur within the country, while attempting to leave, or while on the move to a safe country, or even after arrival in a country of asylum. A situation can be called a crisis, either from the perspective of the forcibly displaced persons, or from the perspective of the receiving state, or both.
  According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as of January 2019, 70.8 million had been displaced worldwide.
  In 2016, an estimated 362,000 refugees crossed the Mediterranean Sea in attempts to reach Europe due to dangers in their home countries. In the first half of 2017, over 105,000 refugees and migrants entered Europe through the Mediterranean. On 27, September, 2019 a boat carrying at least 19 people destined for Chios Island capsized and seven people were killed, including five children and two women. As of 2019, 63,311 people had crossed the Mediterranean towards Europe and at least 1,028 people had died as a result of drowning.
context_section_description: In the 1970s Uganda and other East African nations implemented racist policies that targeted the Asian population of the region. Uganda under Idi Amin's leadership was particularly most virulent in its anti-Asian policies, eventually resulting in the expulsion and ethnic cleansing of Uganda's Asian minority. Uganda's 80,000 Asians were mostly Indians born in the country. India had refused to accept them. Most of the expelled Indians eventually settled in the United Kingdom, Canada and in the United States.
  The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency forced many civilians to live in internally displaced person camps.
caption: Ugandan refugee children at a camp near Kitgum.
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