{"id":406547,"date":"2021-08-25T07:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=406547"},"modified":"2021-08-25T07:53:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:53:11","slug":"afghan-refugees-arrive-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/afghan-refugees-arrive-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan refugees arrive in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>A total of 51 Afghan refugees arrived in Uganda on Wednesday morning, the country&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Uganda has agreed to temporarily host 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan following recent political unrest in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Uganda\u2019s State minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Ms Esther Anyakun, said last week that this follows a request by the US government, which was granted by President Yoweri Museveni.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Uganda is among half-a-dozen African countries that the US has\u00a0courted to host fleeing Afghan nationals after Taliban fighters, deposed by American troops two decades ago,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/world\/afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-flees-country-as-taliban-reach-kabul-3512482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toppled President Ashraf Ghani\u2019s government<\/a>\u00a0and bounced back to power in a stunning takeover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 51 Afghan refugees arrived in Uganda on Wednesday morning, the country&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Uganda has agreed to temporarily host 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan following recent political unrest in the country. Uganda\u2019s State minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Ms Esther Anyakun, said last week that this follows a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":406548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406549,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406547\/revisions\/406549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}