Elias Biryabarema, KAMPALA Uganda
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.
"The request was
made yesterday by the U.S. government to H.E. (President Yoweri Museveni) and
he has given them an OK to bring 2,000 (Afghan) refugees to Uganda,"
Esther Anyakun Davinia, Uganda's junior minister for relief, disaster
preparedness and refugees, told Reuters.
"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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