Uganda allocates $14 million to resettle families affected by landslides in the country
Uganda has allocated 50 billion shillings (about 14 million US dollars) to urgently resettle more than 5,000 families in the mountainous eastern part of the country, where landslides last month claimed the lives of more than 30 people.
It reported. Minister of State for Relief, Disaster Management and Refugees, Lilian Aber, in a statement to “Africa News” Today, Sunday – that these funds will be used to transport residents from landslide-prone areas in the Mount Elgon region to Bonambuti village, a village designated by the government for resettlement in the eastern Bulambuli district.
She said that “based on presidential directives, it will be granted Each family at risk has a cash package, as well as two two-acre plots of land in Bonambuti village. We need to relocate all residents living in landslide-prone areas in the Mt. Elgon to safer areas to avoid repeated deaths and property destruction resulting from these devastating landslides.”
Last month, the Ugandan government called on residents living in disaster-prone mountainous areas to evacuate immediately, after a resulting landslide caused… Rains that lasted for ten hours killed 36 people and left 100 others missing in the eastern Bulambuli district.
It is noteworthy that landslides in Uganda occur repeatedly during periods of heavy rain. Last August, more than 30 people lost their lives in a landslide at a landfill site in central Uganda after days of heavy rain, and last May, eight people were killed in landslides in the western Kasese district.
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