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5,400 Kenyans flee to Uganda Story by DAVE OPIYO Publication Date: 1/6/2008

Some 5,400 Kenyans have sought refuge in Uganda following the upsurge of violence in the western parts of the country. Displaced people from various parts of Eldoret Town and its environs camp at the Eldoret Police Station yesterday. A number of Kenyans have now fled to neighbouring Uganda. Photo/ JARED NYATAYA The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reported yesterday that the Kenyans are currently staying in schools and churches in Tororo district on the eastern side of Uganda. The agency’s spokesman, Mr Emmanuel Nyabera, however, said that the condition of the Kenyans was unknown and that an advance inter-agency mission had been sent to the area to monitor the situation.