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NGOMA—Close to 20 returnees from Uganda are currently stuck at Ngoma district headquarters without anything to eat.

The returnees, from Nakivale settlement in Uganda say that they arrived at the district on Tuesday and by Wednesday evening they had still received nothing to eat.

Independent accounts cannot confirm or deny lack of assistance. Jean Pierre Niyonzima, one returnee says many walked Nakivale to the Kagitumba border last weekend where they were registered and brought back home.

They spent the night there and the next day they were transferred to Matimba sector headquarters where they also spent another night before they were transferred again Tuesday.

Niyonzima says the site manager told them that they "no longer receive” returnees and that they should go back to where they were coming from.

"We were hungry as we had not eaten since morning,” he says. A driver refused to take them back as he was only paid to drop them at the camp.

"But we refused and boarded the car again,” he says. On the way back as Niyonzima says, the driver stopped on the way and told them that if they didn’t get out of his car, he would arrange for the people to kill them.

Marie Chantal Igitegetse says one woman who had a kid was pulled out of the car and left on the way and her whereabouts were currently unknown.

They were however taken to Ngoma district headquarters where the driver left them. There they found room to sleep.

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