In January and February 2025, HRAPF documented growing cases of homophobic attacks ranging from actual violence to arrests and evictions in Africa’s oldest and the world’s ninth-largest refugee settlement. Six of the cases were registered from Isingiro district and one case was registered from Kampala district. “It should be noted that Isingiro hosts Nakivale Refugee Settlement where violence against suspected LGBTIQ persons is rising” HRAPF stated in the January report. Three of the cases were registered from Isingiro district, one case from Kampala district and one from Mbarara district. Nakivale Refugee Settlement hosts more than 170,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Eritrea.