{"id":69161,"date":"2023-09-25T13:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T10:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=69161"},"modified":"2023-09-25T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T10:51:46","slug":"refugees-now-a-threat-to-host-communities-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/refugees-now-a-threat-to-host-communities-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees now a threat to host communities, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sylvia Katushabe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Mr Hilary Onek, has said life is getting harder for refugees in settlements and they have become a threat to host communities.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Onek explained that the recent food aid cuts to Uganda by the World Food Programme (WFP) have greatly affected the quality of refugees&#8217; lives in the country, which has forced them to start engaging in criminality within the host communities.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that food aid was cut to at least 30 percent, meaning that the refugees now have one meal a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have challenges of keeping law and order. Managing refugees is becoming difficult because they don\u2019t have food, so they are forced into criminality,\u201dMr Onek said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cYou find that they start stealing people\u2019s property, food and uprooting cassava and harvesting food in people\u2019s gardens, they are provoking the communities into disliking having refugees around them.<\/p>\n<p>The minister was speaking during the inauguration of the five members of the Refugees Appeal Board at the Office of the Prime Minister in Kampala on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sylvia Katushabe The Minister of Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Mr Hilary Onek, has said life is getting harder for refugees in settlements and they have become a threat to host communities. Mr Onek explained that the recent food aid cuts to Uganda by the World Food Programme (WFP) have greatly affected the quality of refugees&#8217; lives in the country, which has forced them to start engaging in criminality within the host communities. He noted that food aid was cut to at least 30 percent, meaning that the refugees now have one meal a day. \u201cWe now have challenges of keeping law and order. 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