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Mukhtar Awadalla

    Mukhtar Awadalla

    On April of 2019, the government of Uganda confirmed an agreement between Uganda and Israel to receive approximately 500 Eritrean and Sudanese refugees. Musa Ecweru the Minister of State for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees... more
    On April of 2019, the government of Uganda confirmed an agreement between Uganda and Israel to receive approximately 500 Eritrean and Sudanese refugees.  Musa Ecweru the Minister of State for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees said that all the 500 Refugees shall undergo a vetting process to ascertain whether they are suitable to be granted asylum in Uganda.  This announcement of carrying out a vetting process was not delivered with assurance that steps were to be taken to ensure that Uganda harbored legally voluntary deported refugees from Israel and could provide for the refugees, as promised by Israel to the refugees who were to be deported.
    This research, made as a final research for BA in Law at Cavendish University in Kampala, wishes to present the violation of rights made by this move of Uganda and Israel, while regarding international law, regional law of east Africa and local law of Uganda and Israel.