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IN NUMBERS
- 75,042 refugees registered in Busuma site and transit centers (source ONPRA, UNHCR)
- 66,355 reached by WFP during January distribution cycle (88% of total new refugee caseload). Since the beginning of this crisis, WFP reached 85,000 beneficiaries upon first days of arrival.
- USD 4 million is the total budget required per month, to deliver food (full ration) and nutrition assistance to the entire refugee population, including USD 2 million monthly for the new refugee caselad arrived since Dec 2025
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
• In Busuma, WFP is accelerating assistance with ongoing food distributions reaching 86% of all refugees and with a target to reach 100% in the coming days.
• In Cishemere and Makombe, transit centres are overstretched with hot meals continuing to be provided daily. An overcrowding situation is driving serious health and protection concerns in Cishemere.
• WFP is launching a nutrition response addressing Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) prevention and treatment for children under 5 and PBWG in Busuma.
• Operational challenges are progressively being addressed: reinforcing logistics onsite for all partners; bringing food and nutrition commodities at scale; deploying sensitization and feedback mechanisms to ensure adequate accountability to affected population; contributing actively to coordination efforts.
• Markets serving Busuma site are struggling to absorb the pressure linked to the refugee influx. WFP rapid assessment showed food prices rising.
• USD 4 million is required on a monthly basis to deliver humanitarian food and nutrition assistance to all refugees. Self-reliance activities are largely -if not entirely- underfunded.