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Following heavy rains of 27th November 2024 across Bulambuli District and the neighboring districts, flooding was triggered by the overflow of River Simu, which inundated nearby households, destroyed crops, and disrupted major roads, including Sironko-Kapchorwa and Muyembe-Nakapiripit. This led to the collapse of bridges and transport disruptions. Later that evening, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, the conditions also led to landslide events in eight villages in Buluganya parish and other areas in Sooti, Sisiyi, and Bulago sub-counties.
While the floods have had impact in the riverine communities, the most significant impact and humanitarian need came from the landslides, which caused extensive destruction, displacing thousands of families.
On 11.12.2024, the Prime Minister conveyed the humanitarian meeting where official figures of the affected population were updated, supported by NS and local authorities' search, rescue and excavation work. 30,000 people were affected. NS has identified 2,023 households (12,138 people) that were hosted at holding temporary camp following the events, 20 deaths, 22 people were injured, and more than 121 were missing. That coordination meeting was attended by the Minister of state for Disaster preparedness, Relief and Refugees, religious leaders, cultural leaders, local authorities and humanitarian actors on ground, the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM)
Team coordinating the response efforts. The meeting also served at coordinating the response efforts that need to be deployed to assist the communities and reach the target priority of Government which was indicated "to resettle over 5000 households”. The Prime Minister also acknowledged the slow registration of affected people and assessment was due to difficulty in accessing the affected area amidst the search and recovery effort as impacted people were scattered in different areas.
As of 29th November 2024, the Prime Minister ordered all the people affected by the landslide and those living at high-risk areas to relocate to Bunambutye holding centre pending procurement of land by government for their resettlement. About 2600 people were living at the holding centre. The government through the office of the Prime Minister and the district was and is still providing food for all the people at the holding centre, URCS provided clean and safe water for domestic use, constructed emergency pit latrines and bathing shelters, provided emergency medical services through the static clinic that was established at the holding centre, distributed NFI and MHM kits to the most vulnerable households, provided emergency shelter through the 4 shelter tents, conducted risk communication alongside CEA services to the affected people.
On Friday, the 20th December 2024, Around 7:00 pm, the camp experienced high intensity rainfall and windstorms resulting into, destruction of 4 URCS 200 capacity Family tents, for accommodation at the holding center, destruction of roof tops to 2 UNHCR high performance tents of 60 people capacity, destroyed unquantified non-food items that had recently been distributed to the IDPs and caused minor injuries to about 7 people. This led to the relocation of the women's tent to the nearby location at the school staff quarters pending the clearance of the new holding centre.
On the 9th of February 2025, all the households living at the school and those at the school staff quarters were again relocated to the new/permanent holding centre that is about 2km away from the school and within Bunambutye camp surrounding. Decision was due to school re-opening in February 2025. URCS quickly supported the relocation and reassembly with shelter assistance. The NS also promptly reoriented the ongoing assistance to the new situation and relocation sites, ensuring relevant and coordinated intervention. To accommodate the context changes and align with the new priorities, this DREF operation remains flexible.