President\nTeodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea arrives in Uganda on Friday\nfor a two-day official visit at the invitation of President Yoweri Museveni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President\nMbasogo\u2019s visit comes shortly after United Nations High Commission for Refugees\n(UNHCR) welcomed Equatorial Guinea\u2019s accession to the Kampala Convention on\ninternally displaced people (IDPs), becoming the 29th African Union (AU) member\nstate to do so according to the UNHCR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Kampala\nConvention is the world\u2019s first and only regional legally binding instrument\nfor the protection and assistance of IDPs, who often face heightened risks,\nviolations and sexual violence because of their displacement, while they\nstruggle to access their rights and basic protection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Equatorial Guinea\ndeposited its instrument of ratification of the Kampala Convention at the AU\nheadquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in October this year. With this\ndevelopment, 29 of the AU\u2019s 55 member states have now acceded to the Kampala\nConvention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The move by\nEquatorial Guinea is particularly opportune as the Kampala Convention is\nmarking its 10th anniversary this year with activities organized by the AU with\nsupport from UNHCR and other partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President\nMbasogo who is the official AU champion of 2019 on finding solutions\nto forced displacement in Africa and will represent the AU at the Global\nRefugee Forum in Geneva will have a tete-a-tete meeting\nwith President Yoweri Museveni before undertaking an upcountry tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
H.E Mbasogo will tour\nKiryandongo Refugee Settlement center, Panyandoli Health Centre 111, Panyandoli\nvocation school and Kiryandongo Hospital to have a first hand experience on how\nUganda has successfully handled the refugee situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over one million refugees have fled to Uganda in the last two and a half years, making the Pearl of Africa the third largest refugee-hosting country in the world after Turkey and Pakistan1 , with 1.36 million refugees by June 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wars, violence and persecution in the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region were the main drivers of forced displacement into Uganda, led by South Sudan\u2019s conflict, insecurity and ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and political instability and human rights violations in Burundi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea arrives in Uganda on Friday for a two-day official visit at the invitation of President Yoweri Museveni. President Mbasogo\u2019s visit comes shortly after United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) welcomed Equatorial Guinea\u2019s accession to the Kampala Convention on internally displaced people (IDPs), becoming the 29th African […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":12717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-12716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n