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Figure 15: Top countries of origin of forced migrants residing in Uganda, May 2016
Source: Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), “Uganda – Monthly Refugee Statistics Update [31st May 2016],” Refugee Information
Management System (RIMS)
Table 11: Number of registered refugees and asylum seekers in Uganda, by country of
nationality, end of May 2016
Country of nationality
Number of registered refugees and asylum
seekers
South Sudan 224,420
Democratic Republic of the Congo 205,188
Somalia 38,395
Burundi 36,684
Rwanda 17,103
Eritrea 10,085
Sudan 2,756
Ethiopia 2,590
Other nationalities 1,031
TOTAL 538,252
Source: Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), “Uganda – Monthly Refugee Statistics Update [31st May 2016],” Refugee Information
Management System (RIMS)