Uganda Issues - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Disputes - international

Uganda is subject to armed fighting among hostile ethnic groups, rebels, armed gangs, militias, and various government forces that extend across its borders

Uganda-Kenya: Kenya and Uganda began a joint demarcation of the boundary in 2021; Uganda and Kenya both claim Migingo Island, a tiny island in the middle of Lake Victoria, which offers good fishing

Uganda-Rwanda: a joint technical committee established in 2007 to demarcate sections of the border

Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo(DROC): Uganda rejects the DROC claim to Margherita Peak in the Rwenzori mountains and considers it a boundary divide; there is tension and violence on Lake Albert over prospective oil reserves at the mouth of the Semliki River; Rukwanzi Island in Lake Albert is claimed by both countries

Uganda-South Sudan: Government of South Sudan protests Lord's Resistance Army operations in western Equatorial State, displacing and driving out local populations and stealing grain stores

Uganda-Sudan: none identified

Refugees and internally displaced persons

refugees (country of origin): 845,711 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 452,891 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 61,482 (Somalia) (refugees and asylum seekers), 40,311 (Burundi), 26,700 (Eritrea), 23,154 (Rwanda), 5,307 (Ethiopia) (2022)

NOTE: The information regarding Uganda on this page is re-published from the 2022 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Uganda 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Uganda 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.