State minister for Refugees and Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru says 500 refugees who had sought asylum in Israel will be soon be relocated to Uganda.
Uganda has agreed to host Eritrean and South Sudanese refugees from Israel ending speculation that they had been rejected.
State minister for Refugees and Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru says 500 refugees who had sought asylum in Israel will be soon be relocated to Uganda.
Ecweru was speaking at a press conference at the media centre in Kampala.
Israeli Government representatives told the court earlier this week that an envoy was in an African country finalising a deportation deal after an arrangement with Rwanda to take migrants expelled under the new measures fell through.
Until Friday’s statement, Ugandan officials had denied to Reuters that their government was in talks with Israel to resettle migrants.
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