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Hotels in Arua, in the West Nile region of Uganda, have been very busy in the last years, mostly because international and national humanitarian organisations have been setting up offices in this area due to the high influx of refugees from South Sudan.

After being out of school for four years, Lilian Yesco was excited when she heard about the skills development programme through which she became a baker apprentice in Arua, the West Nile region of Uganda.

Fourteen schools from slums of Kampala performed dance, drama and music acts at a festival held at Uganda's National theatre, to tell youth to “beera clear”, loosely meaning ‘stay clear’, of violence and extremism.

“When I graduate, the first thing I am going to do is build a house for my parents” says 22 year old Lenia.

He is a rare sight – one of only two men sitting at the sewing machine in a class of twenty-two students.

"Before I joined the Complementary Farmers’ Group and received training, I only produced food for subsistence purposes using traditional methods of digging.

From 19 to 23 March 2018, the Strengthening Social Cohesion and stability in slum Populations (SSCoS) project held a one-week training for stakeholders on early response to violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT).

Why drives rural to urban migration? How attractive are secondary cities compared to capitals? Why are people moving? Do they intend to move further? What are the social-political-economic impacts of their arrival in secondary cities?These are the questions to which the research on rural to urban...

At Maniki primary school in Adjumani, 17-year old John-Thomas Gama is following the Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP) financed by the EU Trust Fund for Africa and implemeted by Save the Children.