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Uganda Sheltering Over 'One Million' Refugees

17/08/2017 GMT

Uganda Sheltering 'One Million' Refugees

BBC World Service - World Update, Uganda Sheltering 'One Million' Refugees

Over a million South Sudanese refugees now residing in Uganda

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees says over one million South Sudanese refugees fleeing the conflict in their own country have now crossed into Uganda. Also: The former child soldiers of IS now living in Europe; The mind of General Robert E Lee.

(Image: South Sudanese refugees at Bidi Bidi Settlement Camp, North Uganda, May 2017. Credit: Sumy Sadurni/Barcroft Media/Getty Images)

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