August 20, 2025 4:36 PM

Uganda has not agreed with US to take illegal immigrants, foreign affairs official says

Uganda has not reached any agreement with the United States to take in illegal immigrants because it lacks necessary infrastructure to do so, a senior foreign affairs ministry official said on Wednesday. "To the best of my knowledge we have not reached such an agreement. We do not have the facilities and infrastructure to accommodate such illegal immigrants in Uganda. So, we cannot take in such illegal immigrants,” Okello Oryem, state minister for foreign affairs, t...