Uganda said on Tuesday it had agreed to a request from the United States to take in temporarily 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan fleeing after the Taliban takeover.
The east African nation has long experience receiving people escaping conflict and currently hosts about 1.4 million refugees, most from South Sudan.
Uganda’s junior minister for relief, disaster preparedness and refugees, Esther Anyakun Davinia, told Newsmen that the request was made yesterday by the U.S. government to President Yoweri Museveni and he has given them an OK to bring 2,000 Afghan refugees to Uganda.
She said they are going to be here temporarily for three months before the U.S. government resettles them elsewhere. It was unclear when they would start arriving.
Albania and Kosovo have also accepted a U.S. request to temporarily take in Afghan refugees.
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