At last the Basongora pastoralists have a permanent home in Ibuga, Mubuku and part of Rwehingo in Kasese district. But their gain comes with a loss to some of people in those areas.
The Basongora pastoralists who had occupied parts of Queen Elizabeth Game Park, were forcefully removed by government and resettled in Ibuga refuge settlement area, parts of Mubuku prisons farm in Busongora north and Rwehingo Kasese west.
In Ibuga refugee camp and Rwehingo, cultivators who have lived and carried out farming activities for over twenty years have been displaced.
At the refugee camp, a big junk of land was allocated to the Basongora pastoralists and another part allocated to the Bakonzo cultivators
Refugees from Sudan and the DRCongo have given up to December 2007 to leave the area. However the Basongora say the corridor for the cattle to go through for watering on lake Kayanza is small .
Cultivators on the land say government should demarcate the land between themselves and the pastoralists to avoid future conflicts.
The Chief game warden of Uganda wild life Tom Okello says close to 15 hyenas were killed when the Basongora invaded the park.
Basongora have since 1950 been displaced and have been moving from place to place in Kasese district as well as DRCongo, where they were forced out by the Kabila government in 2006 and settled in Quen Elizabeth national Park.
